Wantage trainer Henry Candy’s hopes of allowing Amour Propre to make his comeback in Saturday’s Pearl Bloodstock Palace House Stakes at Newmarket look as if they could be scuppered by rain.
Significant downpours have seen the going ease to soft ahead of the two-day Qipco Guineas Festival.
Amour Propre won the Group 3 event in 2009, and Candy is keen on another crack at the five-furlong contest, but only if ground conditions dry out.
“He hates soft ground and if it came up soft then he wouldn’t run,” said the Kingston Warren handler.
“If the ground isn’t suitable, we’ll probably have to wait for the Temple Stakes (at Haydock on May 26).”
The six-year-old gelding beat the top-class Sole Power in a Group 3 contest at the Curragh last August, but has since been sidelined by injury.
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