Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen can combine for a first and last race double with Lake District and Spirit Of Concorde at Goran Park this afternoon.

Michael Halford’s Sure Reef can finally enjoy a turn in the Anglo Printers’ Handicap at Killarney tonight.

I really had to smile when reading earlier in the week about the so-called sustained gamble on Aidan O’Brien’s Cristoforo Colombo for next Tuesday’s Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Princess Highway will attempt to emulate her dam Irresistible Jewel in Royal Ascot’s Ribblesdale Stakes following a convincing win in the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms Blue Wind Stakes in Naas.