Attraction heads Chariot possibles

Attraction heads the 14 fillies and mares still left in the Kingdom Of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes following the confirmation stage.

Mark Johnston’s multiple Group One winner took last year’s race by a neck from Chic. She has recently shown her well-being with a typically gutsy success over the same mare in the Matron Stakes at Leopardstown.

However, should conditions turn soft on the Rowley Mile her participation in the £200,000 (€294,200) feature would be in doubt.

Penkenna Princess is one filly who would appreciate some cut in the ground and she is set to make the line-up if the forecast rain arrives.

She won the Fred Darling at Newbury and was beaten a whisker in the Irish 1000 Guineas before finishing fifth in the Falmouth and unplaced on her first attempt at a mile and a quarter in the Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.

Her trainer Ralph Beckett said: “The plan is to run her at Newmarket but every drop of rain counts and if we get the rain then she runs.

“She had a break after the Nassau. She’s done well since and I’m very happy with her. Her work is good and she’s in good nick.

“I hope Seb Sanders will ride. That would be ideal.

“Ryan Moore was quite emphatic that she didn’t stay at Goodwood after she’d run a great race in the Falmouth.

“We had to try her at 10 furlongs and it didn’t go our way but that doesn’t mean it won’t.”

The Michael Stoute-trained Chic once again figures among the declarations for the Sun Chariot along with stable companions Peeress and Favourable Terms.

The latter bounced back from injury to score on her return at Doncaster’s St Leger meeting on her first start since she took the Group One Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood last season.

Aidan O’Brien has his usually strong hand with 1000 Guineas winner Virginia Waters, a close third in the Matron, and Mona Lisa, who ran well for a long way behind Oratorio in the Irish Champion Stakes, entered in the Group One contest.

Dubai Surprise could make her debut for Godolphin in the one-mile test.

If allowed to take her chance the three-year-old will be having her first start for 11 months, having finished second in a French Group One race for David Loder on her last visit to the track.

James Fanshawe has opted to leave the progressive Musicanna in the Sun Chariot but he has taken the four-year-old out of the totesport Cambridgeshire on the same card.