Last year's Ladbrokes St Leger hero Encke was the highest-profile name among seven further Mahmood Al Zarooni-trained horses to test positive for anabolic steroids.

Frankie Dettori has indicated he will not be riding anywhere in the world until the French stewards announce their judgement over his positive test for a banned substance.

Frankie Dettori has been temporarily suspended from riding in France due to this week's case over his positive test for a banned substance.

A verdict on any suspension for Frankie Dettori after the jockey tested positive for a banned substance in France was not decided at a meeting in Paris yesterday.

Frankie Dettori is set to face a France Galop inquiry next week after testing positive for a banned substance at Longchamp in September.

Frankie Dettori is set to face a France Galop inquiry next week after a ’positive test’ at Longchamp in September, the rider’s legal representative has revealed.

Frankel demolished perhaps the final obstacle blocking his completion as the blueprint of the perfect thoroughbred racehorse in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York yesterday.

Connections of Coral-Eclipse winner Nathaniel are unlikely to take on Frankel in next Wednesday’s Juddmonte International Stakes unless there is significant rain at York.

Aidan O’Brien is relishing a clash with Frankel when he sends the “exciting” St Nicholas Abbey to the Juddmonte International at York next week.

Frankel will attract rather more attention the next time he appears than in this frenetic fortnight of sporting drama, but maintained his standing as the undisputed champion of his own discipline in the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Goodwood.

Frankel has long ceased to be a lucrative betting option but very few will be hoping for anything other than another impressive victory for the world’s top racehorse as he lines up in the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.

In this afternoon's King George (4.35) at Ascot, Nathaniel will bid to become the first horse since Swain (1997/98) to win successive runnings of the Group 1 race.

Great Heavens and Colliding Worlds have been supplemented for the Darley Irish Oaks at the Curragh on Sunday.

Nathaniel produced a tremendous performance on his first run of the year to land a thrilling Coral-Eclipse at Sandown this afternoon.

Godolphin racing manager Simon Crisford thinks it would be a “tall order” for Farhh to land the honours in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown tomorrow.

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.

Godolphin are praying for more rain ahead of Farhh’s second run in Group One company at Sandown on Saturday.

Remember some of the press reports about Dawn Approach, after the horse had beaten Mister Marc by two and three quarter lengths at Naas last month?

Hopes of a major Royal Ascot winner for Queen Elizabeth in the year of the Diamond Jubilee were dashed when So You Think finished too strongly for Carlton House in the 150th Anniversary of the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes yesterday.

So You Think finished strongly for Carlton House to win the 150th Anniversary of Prince Of Wales's Stakes this afternoon.