Leadership is set to join the blue brigade at Royal Ascot after making a successful start to his career under the Godolphin banner at Windsor.

Richard Hannon’s Brigadier Gerard Stakes winner Potemkin bids for further big-race success in the Preis der Sparkassen Finanzgruppe at Baden-Baden tomorrow.

Sakhee, as expected, has been supplemented for the Prix Gontaut-Biron at Deauville on Saturday.

A total of 15 horses have been left in Saturday’s Group Two Hardwicke Stakes on the final day of Royal Ascot.