Coolmore's G1 Eclipse hero Delacroix (Dubawi) will renew rivalry with Godolphin's Sandown runner-up Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder) and is one of six runners booked for Wednesday's G1 Juddmonte International Stakes at York after three of nine overnight contenders were scratched from the extended 10-furlong contest at Monday morning's declaration stage. The former will attempt to provide Aidan O'Brien with a record-extending eighth renewal from stall three, while Ombudsman bids to regain the winning thread from stall five.
Godolphin is also represented by the Andre Fabre-trained £85,000 supplementary entry Birr Castle (Cloth Of Stars), who will act as Ombudsman's pacemaker under Robert Havlin from stall six.
Danox Company's Shogo Yasuda-trained G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Darby) hero Danon Decile (Epiphaneia), who was last seen accounting for this contest's 2024 runner-up Calandagan (Gleneagles) and Rebel's Romance (Dubawi) in May's G1 Dubai Sheema Classic, is the latest of Japan's midsummer raiding party on deck and will depart from stall four with veteran rider Keita Tosaki in the plate.
The Aga Khan Studs' G2 Prix Eugene Adam victor Daryz (Sea The Stars), representing Francis Graffard, will bid to go one better than his aforementioned stablemate Calandagan and has been allocated stall one. Mickael Barzalona once again takes the ride.
May's course-and-distance G2 Middleton Stakes victrix See The Fire (Sea The Stars), drawn in stall two, will become the first distaffer to prevail since her dam Arabian Queen (Dubawi) delivered a 50-1 shock in 2015. Dual Derby hero Lambourn (Australia), who instead targets Wednesday's G2 Great Voltigeur, G1 Irish Oaks heroine Whirl (Wootton Bassett) and G1 Prince Of Wales's runner-up Anmaat (Awtaad), are the three absentees.
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