Henrythenavigator, ante-post favourite for next year’s Stan James 2000 Guineas, is an odds-on chance to lift Sunday’s Independent Water’ford Wedgwood Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh.

A near-total ban on abortions has been signed into law in South Dakota, a measure the governor called a “direct frontal assault” on the US Supreme Court decision to legalise the procedure 33 years ago.