Aidan O'Brien will provide the sole overseas challengers for the Prix Robert Papin at Maisons-Laffitte on Sunday when he sends Colossus and Haydn for the Group Two contest.

HAWK WING, brilliant winner of the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury last month, is virtually certain to contest the Queen Anne Stakes, rather than the Prince Of Wales Stakes, at Royal Ascot next week.

Brian Cox is the latest actor to join the cast of X-Men 2 as villain William Stry.