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Today’s Hampton Court Stakes at Ascot represents a significant lowering of his sights for Fencing Master but the horse once fancied for the Newmarket 2000 Guineas has quite a lot to prove after a particularly disappointing effort in the Irish 2000 Guineas last time out.

His Dewhurst form of last year, where he finished a close second behind stable-companion Beethoven, and his seventh place finish in the Newmarket Guineas at the start of this season make him the one to beat but he ran without zest at The Curragh recently and needs to leave that form way behind on his first try over ten furlongs.

His place at the head of today’s market is contested by Luca Cumani’s Afsare and the Royal runner, Quadrille, who hails from the in-form Richard Hannon stable. This latter finished second behind yesterday’s Jersey Stakes runner-up Red Jazz in the European Free Handicap and returned to winning ways at Newmarket last month.