The Sky Bet York Stakes (3.10) is one of the features on a modest Saturday afternoon’s racing but it provides a great opportunity for the Luca Cumani-trained Afsare to make the breakthrough in Group company.

The late defection of would-be favourite So You Think from the Eclipse (3.45 Sandown) detracts hugely from the contest, leaving a much more wide-open race. When winning the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot, Aidan O’Brien’s colt had the fast-finishing Farhh, who has assumed favouritism, back in third place.

So You Think has been retired to stand at stud in Australia after lameness ruled him out of the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown tomorrow.

Andrew Balding has put a line through Bonfire’s run in the Derby and is feeling confident ahead of his run in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown on Saturday.