Lord Shanakill, third in the Prix Morny last time out, leads the charge for Friday’s Polypipe Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster.

Shyrl is set to step back to juvenile company following an unsuccessful tilt at the Nunthorpe Stakes.

IT’S a case of the calm before the storm in Ireland this weekend, with the Curragh tomorrow the only meeting prior to the start of the Galway extravaganza on Monday.

Queen Mary heroine Langs Lash will not be seen in action again until she steps up in trip for a crack at the Jaguar Cars Lowther Stakes at York on August 21.

A colleague asked me last Friday if I thought Kieren Fallon or Johnny Murtagh was the better jockey.