This classic is a fascinating affair, with Guineas winner Gold Ship expected to start favourite.

He's by Stay Gold, and half brother Fenomeno has also shown good form of late while not getting the top spot. Grandezza is an Agnes Tachyon whom we like a lot but do not like the jockey who rode two shockers on Orfevre recently. So we are putting in Tosen Homareboshi, with Craig Williams riding and whom he rode to a win three weeks ago.

Also on the card the G2 Meguro Kinen over 2500m. Trailblazer won the Kyoto Kinen recently and was 6th in the Vase at Sha Tin in December. Smart Robin won the Metropolitan and looks well placed here. Danon Ballade is always thereabouts. Saint Emilion was a lovely filly but she doesn't seem to be in the same form however if she was looking very good she could be worth a small investment. Craig Williams will ride Universal Bank, by Neo Universe, and he is not the roughest by a long way and also worthy of a little of the hard-earned.