Henry Cecil cranked up Twice Over’s preparations for the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 16 with a gallop over nine furlongs on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket.

Equiano has now experienced both sides of a tight finish to the Connaught Access Flooring Abernant Stakes but this year the luck was on his side at Newmarket.

Tom Queally gave Twice Over a first sighter of the new racecourse at Meydan on Thursday morning, and is unperturbed by their 11-wide draw in the Dubai World Cup on Saturday.

Firebet succeeded where Harbinger and Urban Poet had so abjectly failed by building on his run in the Gordon Stakes with a win at Epsom on Bank Holiday Monday.

Sixties Icon returns to the track after a near 10-month absence as he seeks back-to-back successes in Sunday’s stanjamesuk.com Jockey Club Stakes.