Expect another Magical moment from Aidan O'Brien

The Qipco Champion Stakes is the headline act on a stellar card at Ascot this afternoon and Magical can provide Aidan O’Brien with a belated birthday present by winning the last of the four Group 1s up for grabs.

The Galileo filly has danced every dance for O’Brien — who turned 50 last Wednesday — winning four of her eight starts in a busy four-year-old campaign that has seen her finish second on three occasions. Last time out, she paid the price for attempting to go toe-to-toe with old adversary Enable in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, fading late on in testing conditions to finish a respectable — if distant — fifth behind Waldgeist.