nephrite

This fashion for Guanxiu's Luohan also coincided with an increased supply of nephrite jade from Khotan and Yarkand available to both imperial and commercial carving workshops.

There are labels for nephrite without it being identified as a jade, and rock crystal without it being identified as quartz.

Chinese jade; first came nephrite, then jadeite, and then all the other minerals followed.

This was another severe blow for odds-on punters, stung by the defeat of O'Brien's Nephrite at the Curragh last month.

The earlier all-the-way win of stable second-string Requisition in the Anne Brewster Memorial Loughbrown Stakes generated plenty of controversy as odds-on stable-companion Nephrite, apparently given too much to do by Joseph O'Brien, finished a disappointing third.

The exciting NEPHRITE, unbeaten in two juvenile starts, will also be expected to start his season successfully, for Aidan, above, and Joseph O'Brien, in the listed Anne Brewster Memorial Loughbrown Stakes over seven furlongs.

Coral's 2,000 Guineas betting: 9-4 Camelot, 9-2 Most Improved, 6 Top Offer, 8 Nephrite, 10 Power, 12 bar.