Joseph O’Brien is not expecting any fireworks from Starspangledbanner as he makes his first start since coming out of retirement in tomorrow’s P. O’´Leary Memorial Phoenix Sprint Stakes at the Curragh.

Society Rock, trained by James Fanshawe and ridden by Pat Cosgrave, won the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.

COOLMORE Australia have entered into an agreement with the owners of So You Think to purchase an interest in the brilliant son of High Chaparral, with a view to the champion joining their stallion roster at the end of his racing career.

Royal Ascot winner and European champion sprinter-elect Starspangledbanner has been retired to stud at Coolmore for the 2011 season.

Aidan O’Brien bids for a remarkable Group One treble in the space of just over an hour in Britain and Ireland tomorrow.

Colm O’Donoghue cannot wait to team up with Starspangledbanner in a race for the first time at Haydock tomorrow.

JOHNNY MURTAGH was left counting the cost after bagging the Darley July Cup on Aidan O’Brien’s Starspangledbanner at Newmarket.

Starspangledbanner followed up his Royal Ascot win with a gritty display in the Darley July Cup at Newmarket today.

There’s been plenty of evidence from the first two days of Newmarket’s July meeting that those horses that raced prominently at Royal Ascot are struggling to reproduce their form.

Jeremy Noseda expects Fleeting Spirit to have made breathless progress since Royal Ascot when she bids for back-to-back wins in the July Cup.

Carl O’Callaghan is ready to let stable star Kinsale King lock horns with Starspangledbanner for a second time in the Darley July Cup at Newmarket.

Aidan O’Brien’s Australian recruit Starspangledbanner led his rivals a merry dance in the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Prime Defender will bid to prove his recent York triumph was no fluke when he crosses swords with a number of the same rivals in the Golden Jubilee Stakes.

A race-fit Prime Defender caught some coveted sprinting prospects on the hop in the Duke Of York Blue Square Stakes today.

Australian sprinter Starspangledbanner is to make his northern hemisphere debut in the Duke Of York Blue Square Stakes at York on Wednesday.