You’d imagine that just about anything is now possible as far as Dermot Weld’s Free Eagle is concerned for the rest of the season.

Gleneagles confirmed his position as the star miler of his generation after handing Aidan O’Brien a record-breaking seventh success in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Cheltenham Gold Cup hero Lord Windermere and last year’s Aintree winner Pineau De Re star among 98 entries for the Crabbie’s Grand National on April 11.

Bookmakers were left reeling after day one of Royal Ascot as brilliant milers Toronado (pictured) and Kingman led the way for punters.

Kiyoshi overcame dramatic late waywardness to impressively win the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Superlative Stakes winner Olympic Glory is the star name among 14 entries for the Veuve Clicquot Vintage Stakes at Glorious Goodwood on Wednesday.

Dropped to maiden company after a creditable run at Royal Ascot, Parliament Square should get off the mark in tonight’s opener in Naas, the six-furlong Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Maiden.

YOU really have to wonder what inspires race-planners at times.

Dawn Approach lived up to his tall reputation with a hard-fought victory in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Nine unbeaten colts will put their perfect records on the line in what looks a high-class renewal of the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot tomorrow.

Connections of New Pearl are upbeat about the colt’s chance in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot on Tuesday – despite an odds-on reverse last time ou

Coolnagree might go in search of Pattern-race success at Leopardstown in two weeks’ time.

ALAN McCabe is confident his star juvenile Caspar Netscher remains at the peak of his powers ahead of the Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury today.

Alan McCabe is confident his star juvenile Caspar Netscher remains at the peak of his powers ahead of the Dubai Duty Free Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury tomorrow.

BEAR Behind is the sole British representative in a field of five for the Prix Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte tomorrow.

JOHNNY MURTAGH showed his style at Royal Ascot when Frederick Engels landed a bit of a touch to provide trainer David Brown with his first winner at the Royal meeting in the Windsor Castle Stakes.

Fledgling trainer Keith Dalgleish gained a confidence boost on the eve of his first Royal Ascot runner as Doc Hay claimed the Stobart Group & Hospice At Home Handicap at Carlisle.

Stone Of Folca, described by John Best as the fastest horse he has ever trained, finally secured his first victory in the Duke Of Cumberland And Old Neptune Median Auction Maiden Stakes at Folkestone this afternoon.

CANFORD Cliffs arrived at Royal Ascot with a score to settle and left at the top of the podium in the three-year-old miling division after proving his worth in the St James’s Palace Stakes.

Dermot Weld’s winning two-year-olds Moonlit Garden and Oor Jock are both heading for Royal Ascot.

JIM BOLGER’S Radharcnafarraige ran out a ready winner of the Group Three Coolmore Stud Fillies Stakes at Naas yesterday to set herself up for a tilt at the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Big Audio is bound for the July meeting at Newmarket after opening his account in the Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot.

DAY one of Royal Ascot belonged to the punters after a host of favourites and well-backed winners left bookmakers reeling.

Aakef bounced back from his lacklustre display at Royal Ascot with a battling performance in the European Breeders' Fund Maiden at Yarmouth.

IT’S a case of the calm before the storm in Ireland this weekend, with the Curragh tomorrow the only meeting prior to the start of the Galway extravaganza on Monday.

Moonstone will seek further Group One glory for Aidan O’Brien at York next month after getting home in a thrilling finish to the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh.

KEVIN Prendergast is likely to be double-handed as he goes in search of third victory in the Audi Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on Saturday.

Royal Ascot juvenile form could be tested for the first time in the One 51 Railway Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

THE Racing Post, over the last week or so, ran a series of little articles under the heading “My golden rules of Royal Ascot betting.”

RAVEN’S Pass finds himself with one final chance to prove he is up to taking on the best milers around in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot today.

Michael Jarvis evidently considered Befortyfour pretty smart to let him take his chance at Royal Ascot on just his second start and the gelding again did little wrong on his seasonal reappearance at Lingfield.

Jamie Osborne saddles Royal Ascot hero Drawnfromthepast and dual winner Cee Bargara as he goes in pursuit of Richmond Stakes glory at Goodwood tomorrow.

Vhujon could be given the chance to redeem his reputation following a disappointing display at Sandown last week with an outing at Salisbury on Saturday.

George Margarson is never a man afraid to take on the big battalions when he thinks he has the suitable ammunition and the trainer is certainly sweet on his latest prospect Dry Speedfit.

Sylvester Kirk’s stable star Elhamri heads the list of 40 juveniles confirmed at the five-day stage for Saturday’s totepool Two-Year-Old Trophy at Redcar.

Sylvester Kirk has his eyes on a trip to the glamorous seaside resort of Deauville with progressive two-year-old Elhamri.

Connections of Windsor Castle Stakes runner-up Conquest are hoping he can continue on the upward curve in the Betfair Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood.

GILDED leads a three-strong challenge from Richard Hannon’s yard as the trainer targets a seventh success in the £135,000 Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury today.

THE admirably consistent Cobham can enjoy a third success in the Jim Ryan Racecourse Services Bumper at Tipperary tomorrow.

Last month’s Queen Mary Stakes heroine Gilded heads a list of 78 horses still engaged in the Weatherbys Super Sprint, run at Newbury on July 22.

Sylvester Kirk has a choice of two options for his exciting Royal Ascot winner Elhamri.

Benbaun will try to make amends for his narrow Royal Ascot defeat in Sunday’s Listed King Of Beers Stakes at the Curragh.

SERGEANT CECIL can make the transition from handicap company to Group One performer with a famous success in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot today.