Underfoot conditions at Royal Ascot next week appear crucial to the participation of Sir Percy in Wednesday’s Prince Of Wales’s Stakes.

High-class five-year-old Manduro is likely to tackle the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 20.

KIEREN FALLON has “high hopes” for Stan James 2000 Guineas favourite George Washington after a fruitful private racecourse gallop.

Ante-post favourite Horatio Nelson and Marcus Tregoning’s Sir Percy top 136 entries for the 2006 Vodafone Derby on June 3.