The Group 2 Jockey Club Stakes (2.30 Newmarket) is very much overshadowed by the 2000 Guineas but it’s a cracking contest in its own right and one which can go to Andre Fabre’s Meandre.

FRANCE and Ireland have agreed a number of common strategic targets from forthcoming EU talks on agriculture and fisheries policies.

IT’S always interesting to see how the market reacts to the draw for the Prix de l’Arc and yesterday’s draw was no different.

RYAN Moore is planning to take just a handful of rides when he returns to the saddle next week to ensure he is at the peak of his powers aboard Workforce in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

THE NEWS that So You Think would be aimed at the Prix de l’Arc at Longchamp on October 2 was perhaps a touch surprising but the reaction of the bookmakers hardly so as they shortened Aidan’ OBrien’s charge to 5-1 second favourite behind last year’s third, Sarafina.

A crack at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe will be “seriously considered” for Snow Fairy if the ground is suitable at Longchamp on October 2.

Harbinger put up a devastating performance to run right away with the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.

An Epsom Derby victor meets an Irish Derby winner and one of the best and most progressive older horses in training. That is the essence of what the King George should be. Add in a horse that’s run up the Prix De l’Arc three times; a French filly who’s won the Hong Kong Vase to add some international flavour, and a front runner to ensure there’s no hiding place and that’s precisely we’re being served at Ascot this afternoon.

Whether or not the fast pace and resulting stamina test of last weekend’s Irish Derby at The Curragh would have suited Sea The Stars will remain pure conjecture, but there are no such concerns regarding the pace in today’s ten-furlong Group 1 Coral Eclipse at Sandown.

Aidan O’Brien is confident Yeats would have more than enough class to hold his own in some of this season’s premier middle-distance events.

PERHAPS it’s puristically disappointing but today’s King George can, readily, be boiled down to a two-horse race.

Tavalu returns from his summer break at Huntingdon and he will take all the beating in the WBX.COM Free Bet For New Accounts Novices’ Chase.

The BBC has negotiated a deal to continue live terrestrial television coverage of the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe until 2009.

Martin Dwyer has insisted that whichever end-of-season target Marcus Tregoning picks for Sir Percy the colt will run “a very big race”.

Martin Dwyer has insisted that whichever end of season target Marcus Tregoning picks for Sir Percy the colt will run “a very big race”.

Youmzain is to bypass the Ladbrokes St Leger for which he was second favourite in the ante-post market.

FOUR horses have been supplemented for the Emirates Airline Champion Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday.

HIGH PRIESTESS, who goes up 14lbs in future handicaps, toyed with the opposition on the way to landing the Guinness Gold Cup at Tralee yesterday.

THE flat season is just a few weeks old, but shortly we are going to witness the first of a number of fascinating decisions which will have to be made as the campaign progresses.

ON Sunday morning the Prix de l’Arc chickens really came home to roost.