Ante-post favourite and owner-mate of Ruling Court is OMBUDSMAN, who must enter all calculations for this prestigious prize. An uber-impressive winner of the G1 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot (the reopposing Anmaat ran second), he is on a steep upward curve and could have not reached the ceiling of his burgeoning ability.

With a huge official rating of 128 - he rates the one to beat - even conceding 10lb to a host of younger rivals. Ruling Court is the only three-year-old who is ahead of him, on the weight-for-age scale.

In what promises to be a huge generational clash - RULING COURT is one of the hugely unexposed three-year-olds, who could easily serve it up to their higher-rated elders, in receipt of a whopping 10lb. The Godolphin-owned son of Justify is a classic win, having landed the 2000 Guineas, ahead of subsequent dual Group One winner, Field Of Gold.

Ruling Court was a keeping-on third behind Field Of Gold in the G1 St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot, over a mile. He looks ready for the step up to 1m2f, and is improving for it, shouldn’t be too far from the main protagonists, at a big each-way price.

STANHOPE GARDENS is another respected three-year-old, and is equally as lightly raced as Ruling Court. The colt is a son of Ghaiyyath, who won this race, ahead of wonder mare Enable in 2020.

Stanhope Gardens has scope for improvement on just his second start in Group One company after failing to stay the 1m4f trip in the Epsom Derby. It would be foolish to dismiss his place credentials at huge odds.