A run in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 19 remains the likely “first preference” for Frankel, trainer Sir Henry Cecil said.

FOR two reasons, I’m not going to even attempt to get Frankel beaten in today’s QEII Stakes at Ascot.

Frankel will face seven rivals when he bids to maintain his unbeaten record in the Qipco-sponsored Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

Henry Cecil’s Frankel could face up to nine rivals in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

FRANKEL is likely to have the help of his stablemate and three-parts brother Bullet Train as a pacemaker in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot next month.

FRANKEL again impressed Newmarket work-watchers yesterday morning and is set to go off at long odds-on in next week’s St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

JOHNNY Murtagh is convinced Jan Vermeer, his mount in today’s Derby, is the ideal type for Epsom.

ST NICHOLAS ABBEY, as expected, will miss next Saturday’s Investec Derby at Epsom.

WORKFORCE is set to bolster owner Prince Khalid Abdullah’s Investec Derby team after delighting connections in a racecourse gallop.

TWO weeks to the Epsom Derby and the mystery continues.

THE Chester meeting just gone did little to shake up the market for the Epsom Classics and so the search train rolls on to Lingfield today where the Derby and Oaks trials headline a decent looking card. In recent years, these are two trials that have struggled to unearth an Epsom champion with High Rise in 1998 and Ramruma in 1999 the last colt and filly to win here before going on to Epsom glory in the Derby and Oaks respectively.