Ian Heitman was impressed with the Phoenix Stakes winner

The 2000 Guineas might be eight months away but there is already a relatively short-priced favourite, Little Big Bear, as low as 11/4 with one bookmaker. His odds were slashed from 12/1 following his emphatic win in the first Group 1 race for two-year-olds of the year, the Phoenix Stakes over 6f at the Curragh on August 6th. Despite there being only five runners, the winners of significant races such as the Coventry Stakes, Bradsell, July Stakes, Persian Force, Railway Stakes, Shartash and Anglesey Stakes, Little Big Bear w...