John Gosden aims to have Jack Hobbs ready for a third shot at the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot on October 21.

No three-year-olds contested the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes between 2005 and 2008 and, for the most part, it has failed to attract the very best of the classic generation since, preventing the race from being the top cross-generational middle-distance clash that it really should be.

Highland Reel (Aidan O'Brien IRE) heads the 16 five-day confirmations for the £1,150,000 G1 King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes (Sponsored by QIPCO), Britain's premier all-aged middle-distance contest which takes place over a mile and a half at Ascot on Saturday, July 29.

The 2017 Prince Of Wales’s Stakes run at Royal Ascot on Wednesday is the event for the WFA stars at the Championship distance.

The US Open golf which begins today may feature a Holmes and a Watson, however the trick to identifying the winner of Wednesday's Prince of Wales’s Stakes lies in separating out the key protagonists of this particular mystery.