Red Rocks bids to earn his passage for a fourth successive run at the Breeders’ Cup when he lines-up for the Grosvenor Casinos Cumberland Lodge Stakes at Ascot on Sunday.

Relentless rain got Ascot's big three-day meeting off to a miserable start, but those who backed 20-1 winner King Charles in the opening EBF Ratcliffes Syndication Classified Stakes will not be complaining.

Tax Free smashed Goodwood’s six-furlong track record by almost half a second in an epic Sporting Index Starlit Stakes.

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S Holy Roman Emperor heads 135 entries for the £250,000 Darley Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket on October 14.