Arab Spring team full of the joys

Arab Spring bids to go up an important rung on the ladder when he runs in the Princess of Wales’s boylesports.com Stakes at Newmarket today.

The lightly-raced four-year-old is justifying the patient approach of his trainer Michael Stoute and has earned the right to go for Group Two honours with an impressive victory at Royal Ascot.

That came in the Duke if Edinburgh Handicap in which he sailed away from the opposition to score by two lengths from Salutation.