The Queen’s Vase is a race worth getting involved in on day four of the Royal Ascot meeting and the John Gosden-trained Marzocco looks the type to appreciate the step up to two miles on fast ground, and the lightly raced colt can continue his progress with victory here.

Galileo Rock will not run in the Ladbrokes St Leger on Saturday unless the going improves at Doncaster.

Jo Hughes is looking forward to saddling her first British Classic runner when London Bridge lines up for the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster on Saturday.

There are few harder horses to dislodge from the front than Universal and Mark Johnston’s battler continued his impressive rate of progress in the Princess Of Wales’s boylesports.com Stakes at Newmarket.

Michael Stoute is well aware that Queen Elizabeth’s filly Estimate faces the toughest test of her career in today’s Gold Cup at Royal Ascot.

An early deluge has not caused the ground at Goodwood to deteriorate further than officially good ahead of the start of the Glorious meeting tomorrow.

Black Caviar will command all the attention at Royal Ascot this afternoon but unless you’re a big punter or a price-starved Australian used to looking at odds as short as 1-33, she’s unlikely to make any appeal from a punting perspective.

Kieren Fallon’s desire to regain the jockeys’ title burned as brightly as the autumn sun as the in-form rider rattled off another two winners at Ascot.

NAMIBIAN gave Mark Johnston his 50th Glorious Goodwood winner with a performance characteristic of so many of the trainer’s best horses in the bet365 Gordon Stakes.

Slumber, ante-post favourite for the John Smith’s Cup next weekend, is also among 17 confirmations for the Princess of Wales’s sportingbet.com Stakes at Newmarket on Thursday.

NAMIBIAN gave trainer Mark Johnston his sixth win in the Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot with a battling success over Solar Sky.

Richard Hughes has been booked by Jeremy Noseda to partner Theology in Saturday’s Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster.

OLIVIER PESLIER will ride Sans Frontieres when he steps up to Group One company for the first time in Saturday’s Irish Field St Leger.

JIM Bolger has two shots at interrupting Aidan O’Brien’s monopoly on the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby as Puncher Clynch and Carraiglawn head for the Curragh tomorrow.

Jim Bolger has two shots at interrupting Aidan O’Brien’s monopoly on the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby as Puncher Clynch and Carraiglawn head for the Curragh on Sunday.

JIM BOLGER could be double-handed with Puncher Clynch and Carraiglawn in Sunday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

JIM BOLGER will wait until tomorrow morning before deciding on his plans for Saturday’s Audi Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.

Jim Bolger could be double-handed with Puncher Clynch and Carraiglawn in Sunday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

Godolphin are putting together a strong team for next week’s Ebor Festival at York, headed by Tuesday’s Ladbrokes Great Voltigeur hope Mastery.

MULTIDIMENSIONAL is the value call to give Henry Cecil a first Group One winner of the year in the Juddmonte International at York today.

Mark Johnston believes he has a strong hand with Captain Webb and Age Of Reason as he attempts to improve an impressive record in the Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot on Friday.

Fresh from finishing third in the National Hunt trainers’ championship, Alan King sent out his first Group winner on the level as Shipmaster landed the Woodcote Stud Sagaro Stakes at Ascot.

Alan King was left far from downhearted as My Way De Solzen suffered an agonising last-gasp defeat to Lough Derg in the totesport.com National Spirit Hurdle at Fontwell.

Winker Watson will follow the route taken by stablemate Dutch Art last season following his last-gasp success in the TNT July Stakes at Newmarket.

Trainer Michael Jarvis believes Galient has “an outside chance” in the Ladbrokes St Leger at York on Saturday.

Polar Jem spearheads a strong British challenge in Deauville this weekend as the ultra-tough mare takes her chance in the Group Two Prix Jean Romanet.

David Elsworth’s The Geezer tops a field of six St Leger entries that will go to post for the Daily Telegraph Great Voltigeur Stakes at York tomorrow.

Gamut can return to the top of his game to claim the Princess Of Wales’s Edward St George Memorial Stakes at Newmarket tomorrow.

HURRICANE RUN, a best priced 4-6 with Paddy Power, will face a maximum of nine rivals in Sunday’s Budweiser Irish Derby after it was revealed that John Dunlop’s triple entry in the race was a mistake.

Godolphin’s Rule Of Law heads the 19 horses remaining in the betfair.com St Leger at the latest forfeit stage.

KEVIN Prendergast’s Kurbaan, following some near misses, made no mistake in the McInerney Construction Maiden at Limerick last night.

Aidan O’Brien has withdrawn his two runners from today’s meeting at Royal Ascot on account of the prevailing fast ground.