Mamool was installed as favourite for the Ascot Gold Cup after Godolphin finally shrugged off the blues on the final day of York’s Dante meeting.

Brian Boru has been backed today for next month’s Vodafone Derby at Epsom.

ALAMSHAR, a leading ante-post fancy for the Vodafone Derby, is one of 32 entries for the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial Stakes at Leopardstown on Sunday.

JOHNNY MURTAGH is hoping to land a second successive victory on an Aidan O’Brien-trained runner in the Sagitta 2000 Guineas at Newmarket today.

Barry Hills will attempt to add to his impressive recent record in the Victor Chandler Chester Vase with Risk Taker on the Roodee on Tuesday.

IRELAND’S challenge for a fourth consecutive Vodafone Derby victory has been strengthened with the addition of the unbeaten colts Refuse To Bend and Alamshar to the entries for the premier Classic.