Patience was rewarded in droves for the Richard Hannon team when Canford Cliffs lowered the colours of Goldikova in a vintage renewal of the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Canford Cliffs remains firmly on course for Tuesday’s Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot after coming through a racecourse gallop at Kempton with flying colours.

Goldikova’s eagerly-anticipated clash with Canford Cliffs remains on the cards in next week’s Queen Anne Stakes with the two star milers both among the six-day entries for Royal Ascot.

NEWMARKET 2000 Guineas winner Frankel and unbeaten Australian sprinter Black Caviar have been ranked the joint-best racehorses in the world this year.

THE Richard Hannon team is divided on which of their two will come out on top in what promises to be a vintage renewal of the Lockinge, as they are housed in different parts of the stable.

CANFORD CLIFFS, long the apple of trainer Richard Hannon’s eye, makes his anticipated seasonal return in this afternoon’s Lockinge Stakes at Newbury and, though now in his third year on the track, the Everleigh enthusiasm for the colt is, if anything, on the increase.

CASAMENTO has been confirmed a definite runner in Saturday’s Qipco 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.

RICHARD HUGHES has confirmed his intention to have another serious attempt at winning the Flat jockeys championship.

Harbinger has been crowned as the top performer of 2010 after the World Thoroughbred Rankings were released.

Canford Cliffs could run again this season as connections of the three-year-old mull a foreign trip with their star colt.

CASAMENTO has been supplemented for the Juddmonte Beresford Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday.

BOOKMAKERS have unanimously inserted Canford Cliffs as favourite in his defining clash with Makfi in Saturday’s Sony-sponsored Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot.

Bookmakers have unanimously inserted Canford Cliffs as favourite in his defining clash with Makfi in Saturday's Sony-sponsored Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot.

FROM Saratoga in America to the county of Kerry is the road travelled by Steinbeck, the likely favourite for the featured Listed Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes at Killarney tonight.

Connections of Paco Boy blamed the testing Deauville ground for his reverse in yesterday’s Prix Jacques le Marois.

Canford Cliffs will return to Ascot next month, with Richard Hannon confirming the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes as his next target.

DICK Turpin looks set to sidestep a fourth clash with his stable companion Canford Cliffs in Wednesday’s Sussex Stakes at Goodwood due to the likely fast conditions.

Aidan O'Brien hopes Steinbeck has progressed enough to give Canford Cliffs a race in tomorrow's St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

THE three first three home in the 2000 Guineas are among a nine-strong line-up for the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot tomorrow.

Makfi “knows he is a racehorse now” as he prepares for a mouthwatering rematch with Canford Cliffs and Dick Turpin in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot next month.

CANFORD CLIFFS, despite obvious worries regarding his abilty to truly stay a stiff mile, gets the vote in the Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh this afternoon.

Steinbeck heads a six-strong team from the Aidan O’Brien stable in the Abu Dhabi Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday.

Ralph Beckett is looking forward to running Oasis Dancer in the Abu Dhabi Irish 2,000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday.

RICHARD Hannon has high hopes Canford Cliffs can give him a third Irish 2000 Guineas success at the Curragh on Saturday.

Richard Hannon has high hopes Canford Cliffs can give him a third Irish 2000 Guineas success at the Curragh on Saturday.

BALLYDOYLE, who are usually mob-handed in the Classics, will rely solely on Devoted To You in Sunday’s StanJames.com 1000 Guineas at Newmarket.

Canford Cliffs is set to make his eagerly-awaited seasonal debut in the Bathwick Tyres Greenham Stakes at Newbury on Saturday.

Richard Hannon will give Canford Cliffs a 2000 Guineas prep run in the Greenham Stakes.

Richard Hannon is keen to put the disappointing effort of Canford Cliffs in the Prix Morny down to the fast ground after a scope revealed nothing abnormal.

The Prix Morny at Deauville looks set to be the next port of call for Canford Cliffs following his devastating performance in the Coventry 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.