Champions Day Guide to all today’s action at Ascot

Make A Challenge is the rags-to-riches story and a big margin winner on heavy but this company is smarter. Advertise is the class act but untried on going like this. Mabs Cross and One Master love the mud. HELLO YOUMZAIN is now fulfilling his promise and will not mind the ground.

Provided he gets the go-ahead to run it is hard to look beyond STRADIVARIUS, twice champion stayer and unbeaten since this day two years ago. The ground is unknown territory for Withhold while Kew Gardens is solid.

This looks between the Gosden pair STAR CATCHER, Frankie Dettori’s choice and a courseand-distance winner on soft, and Epsom Oaks winner Anapurna. The Irish filly Tarnawa might be underrated and has been going up through the gears.

Benbatl looked great on his recent reappearance but has yet to win a British Group One and will not love the ground. The Revenant comes here on the back of an unbeaten season in France and has webbed feet but he has yet to dip his toe into Group One company. Guineas winner Magna Grecia and Mohaather are interesting but MOVE SWIFTLY goes well fresh and loves the ground.

I am afraid it will be too soft for Japanese star Deirdre but it cannot be soft enough for Addeybb, who has been kept for this. Fox Tal is unexposed but untried on the going, Coronet will revel in the mud but provided she has recovered from a hard race in the Arc and is ridden more conservatively, MAGICAL sets the standard.

LORD NORTH won the Cambridgeshire pulling a cart and not even top weight is unlikely to stop him. His biggest danger may be from his stablemate Kick On. Coolagh Forest is in good form and gets further if it comes down to stamina. Glen Shiel will like the ground while Ralph Beckett’s horses are flying and he runs Royal Ascot winner Biometric.

Marcus Armytage