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By Steve Jones Tip your Hat to Richard Hannon for the first Classic of the season. The Wiltshire trainer has a couple of runners in the Qipco 2000 Guineas and I fancy the outsider of the pair, HAATEM (3.35). His juvenile form was good without being spectacular. He had nine runs last season, with the highlight being his Vintage Stakes win at Goodwood, but he twice finished behind red-hot Guineas favourite City Of Troy. That gives him plenty of ground to make up but, if his impressive comeback win in the Craven Stakes last month is anything to go by, he can get an awful lot closer. He’s clearly …

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