Saturday’s potentially explosive encounter between Motivator and Shamardal in the Coral-Eclipse Stakes at Sandown is set to go ahead after both were declared for the race today.

Motivator has shortened to odds-on favourite for the Coral-Eclipse Stakes with the sponsors following today’s confirmation stage.

Hazyview, an expensive failure in last year’s Derby, went a long way to repaying connections’ faith with a resounding victory in the Vodafone Diomed Stakes at Epsom yesterday.

Long-time Vodafone Derby favourite Yeats has been displaced at the head of the market for the premier Classic.

John Dunlop’s improving three-year-old Let The Lion Roar could put his Vodafone Derby credentials on the line at Lingfield Park on Saturday.