Ballymacoll Stud are prepared to let Conduit and Tartan Bearer do battle against each other in the King George And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday week.

FAME AND GLORY will be given a midsummer break by Aidan O’Brien before being brought back to the track for the Irish Champion Stakes and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

Bookmakers continue to count the cost of Royal Ascot despite making a bright start to day two.

TRAINING sensation Jean-Claude Rouget bids to make his mark at Royal Ascot today when he saddles Never On Sunday in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes.

Royal Ascot could come into the reckoning for Pointilliste, who created a good impression by dictating the pace in the Prix de Barbeville at Longchamp.

Johnny Murtagh believes Duke Of Marmalade can overcome potentially unsuitable ground in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp.

Jimmy Fortune has picked up a prized spare ride on Papal Bull in Sunday’s Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

Famous Name, an unlucky second in the French Derby on his latest start, is to be aimed at the Juddmonte International at York on August 19.

Big race rides are nothing new to Pat Smullen, but going to Epsom with a live chance in a classic is not exactly something that comes around every day. DECLAN COLLEY spoke to him about his prospects.

DERMOT Weld kicked off what could turn out to be a magical week as Famous Name was agonisingly denied by a diminishing head in the Prix du Jockey-Club at Chantilly yesterday.

Dermot Weld’s Famous Name was agonisingly denied in the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly by Vision D’Etat.