Ballymacoll Stud are prepared to let Conduit and Tartan Bearer do battle against each other in the King George And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday week.

The Group 1 Golden Jubilee Stakes is the feature event on the closing day of an exceptional Royal Ascot meeting and, I’m sure, if trainer Michael Stoute could commandeer one of those specialist sprinters to set the early pace in the Hardwicke Stakes, he would certainly consider doing so.

Bookmakers continue to count the cost of Royal Ascot despite making a bright start to day two.

AMERICAN Wesley Ward struck for the second successive afternoon, this time in the Queen Mary with Jealous Again at Royal Ascot yesterday.

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Last year’s Derby runner-up Tartan Bearer will face a maximum of eight rivals in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot.

MICHAEL STOUTE’S Tartan Bearer features among a high-class field of 10 remaining entries for the Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh on Sunday.

ARCHIPENKO is set for a key gallop next week ahead of his bid for Champion Stakes glory at Newmarket on October 18.

Doctor Fremantle is making steady progress following a setback and could still make the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster next month.

JOHNNY Murtagh is unsure what effect the ground will have on the eagerly-awaited clash between his mount Duke Of Marmalade and New Approach in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York today.

New Approach remains a short-priced favourite for Sunday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby – despite continuing doubts about his participation.

JIM BOLGER has raised a slight doubt over the participation of hot favourite New Approach in tomorrow’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

JOHNNY MURTAGH will partner Alessandro Volta in Sunday’s Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh.

Conditions at the Curragh have eased to good after 13 millimetres of rain fell ahead of the three-day Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby meeting which starts on Friday.

FRAN Berry aims to improve on his personal best of third place in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby when reunited with Curtain Call at the Curragh on Sunday.

THE first six home in the Epsom Derby could all lock horns once again in the Dubai Duty Free-sponsored Irish version at the Curragh on Sunday.

The first six home in the Epsom Derby could all lock horns once again in the Dubai Duty Free-sponsored Irish version at the Curragh on Sunday.

Michael Stoute was among the winners at Royal Ascot last week and can strike with Warringah in the Doccombe European Bibury Cup Handicap at Salisbury.

Casual Conquest, third in the Vodafone Derby at Epsom earlier in the month, is on course to reappear in the Irish equivalent at the Curragh on Sunday week.

Corrybrough stretched his winning sequence to four and confirmed himself as a potential sprint star with an impressive victory in the bettercasino.com Scurry Stakes at Sandown.

New Approach has been given a rating of 126 from British Horseracing Authority senior handicapper Phil Smith following his brilliant victory in the Vodafone Derby.

New Approach gave Irish trainer Jim Bolger and jockey Kevin Manning their first success in the Vodafone Derby with a game victory at Epsom.

IT is time for the talking to stop and New Approach can silence the critics with victory in the Vodafone Derby at Epsom this afternoon.

KING Of Rome has been all the rage for the Vodafone Derby following news that he will be Johnny Murtagh’s mount at Epsom on Saturday.

A final decision has still to be made regarding Casual Conquest’s participation in the Vodafone Derby, but connections intimated again today he remains likely to be supplemented for the premier Classic.

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Connections of Twice Over have identified a possible reason for the colt’s shock defeat in the totesport.com Dante Stakes at York on Thursday.

TARTAN BEARER added a degree of clarity to the Vodafone Derby picture as Michael Stoute saddled him to victory in an informative renewal of the totesport.com Dante Stakes at York.

Tartan Bearer showed a willing attitude when finding plenty for pressure as he ran out a narrow winner of the totesport.com Dante Stakes at York.

A continued spell of decent weather is likely to tempt Andrew Balding into running Top Lock in Saturday’s Casino At Bet365.com Classic Trial at Sandown.

Jupiter Pluvius, Aidan O’Brien’s leading candidate for the Stan James 2000 Guineas, pleased the Ballydoyle handler when working this morning.