FRANKEL has been officially rated 4lb clear of the field as the best racehorse on the planet after the announcement of the World Thoroughbred Rankings.

WORKFORCE is “progressing well” as connections build towards the defence of his crown in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in October.

CONNECTIONS of Workforce remain hopeful he will be able to defend his crown in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe following the injury he sustained at Ascot on Saturday.

THE Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe has been confirmed as the next competitive target for Nathaniel, hugely impressive winner of the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe has been confirmed as the next competitive target for Nathaniel, hugely impressive winner of the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

MICHAEL Stoute is confident Workforce is in better shape than 12 months ago as he has a second shot at the Betfair-sponsored King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

SIMON Crisford believes a strongly run race is the key to Rewilding’s success ahead of Saturday’s King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.

GODOLPHIN’S Rewilding is now a 5-2 shot with William Hill for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes following the latest round of forfeits.

Blue Bunting will seek her second Classic of the year in the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on July 17.

THOSE few minutes between the victory of the over-enthusiastically ridden Rewilding and the subsequent interviews of connections of runner-up So You Think after the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot were dark ones for punters and racing fans who had subscribed to the idea that the vanquished ex-Aussie star was the second coming.

WHEN So You Think suffered that defeat by Rewilding in the Prince Of Wales’ Stakes at Royal Ascot, Aidan O’Brien gave an extraordinary post-race interview to the BBC.

Frankel is one of the headline names among 43 entries for the Juddmonte International at York.

GODOLPHIN broke back into the Royal Ascot spotlight as Rewilding hunted down the Australian giant So You Think in a captivating Prince of Wales’s Stakes yesterday.

Frankie Dettori opened his account at the Royal meeting when Rewilding claimed the red-hot favourite So You Think close home in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.

Rewilding could be seen next in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Mark Tompkins suspects there was more than meets the eye to Ted Spread’s tame Ladbrokes St Leger reverse.

The drying ground at Doncaster has enabled Ed Dunlop to declare Snow Fairy for the Ladbrokes St Leger on Saturday.

SNOW FAIRY came out of her first defeat of the season in the Yorkshire Oaks in good heart – but no decision has yet been taken on whether she runs in the Ladbrokes St Leger.

In the press room at Tramore last Thursday week a group of us were watching a two-year-old maiden being run at Leopardstown.

A DISAPPOINTING weekend for Aidan O’Brien got worse yesterday when he suffered his second dose of Derby misery in 24 hours.

Workforce gave Michael Stoute his fifth success in the Investec Derby at Epsom with a brilliant performance under Ryan Moore.

FRANKIE DETTORI believes Rewilding has the right credentials to be a major player in today’s Derby. The popular Italian jockey broke his Derby duck on Authorized in 2007 and admits he would dearly love to win the premier Classic in the Godolphin blue for his boss Sheikh Mohammed.

FINALLY, we can get down to business this afternoon, leaving all the St Nicholas Abbey drama behind us, and concentrate on the most exciting flat race in the world, the Epsom Derby.

JOHN McCRIRICK has plumped for Rewilding at Epsom today – but not with tremendous confidence in what he describes as an “enigmatic” Investec Derby.

THE absence of St Nicholas Abbey takes some of the intrigue from today’s Investec Epsom Derby but, for all that the Ballydoyle team will miss the horse they believed ‘could walk on water’, the stable dominated the major trials and appears to hold all the aces today.

Frankie Dettori believes Rewilding has the right credentials to be a major player in Saturday’s Investec Derby at Epsom.

ST NICHOLAS ABBEY, as expected, will miss next Saturday’s Investec Derby at Epsom.

AIDAN O’Brien believes St Nicholas Abbey will be more than capable of handling the Epsom undulations in the Investec Derby.

Aidan O’Brien believes St Nicholas Abbey will be more than capable of handling the Epsom undulations in the Investec Derby.