Clodovil can prove too good in Palace showdown

CLODOVIL can be crowned Europe’s champion three-year-old colt over a mile by winning the St James’s Palace Stakes on the opening day of Royal Ascot today.

The French colt, who stretched his unbeaten run to five in the Gainsborough Poule d’Essai des Poulains, can win the battle of the Guineas winners. He takes on Irish hero Indian Haven, Martillo who took the German equivalent, plus the Sagitta 2000 Guineas runner-up Zafeen.

Clodovil looked a specialist miler of the highest order when beating Catcher In The Rye by a length in the French 2000 at Longchamp last month.