Kinross bids to give Dettori perfect send-off in Champions Sprint

Last year’s winner Kinross and the top three-year-old sprinter Shaquille head 18 confirmations for what looks an open-looking QIPCO British Champions Sprint.

Kinross has been a dual Group 2 winner this year and arrives in similar form to last year, having gone close last time in the Group 1 Prix de la Foret at Longchamp, a race which he won last year. He will be ridden again by Frankie Dettori.

Shaquille staked his claim to be regarded this year’s champion sprinter when overcoming slow starts for top level wins in the Commonwealth Cup and the July Cup, but no explanation has been forthcoming for a decidedly lacklustre effort at Haydock last time.

Karl Burke has two live chances with Spycatcher, a Group 1 second on very soft ground at Deauville, and Swingalong, who was third to Shaquille in the Commonwealth Cup.

The other possibles include Run To Freedom, who was second here last year and second again to Shaquille in the July Cup; Khadeem, the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes winner at Royal Ascot; Sense Of Duty, who was unbeaten at six furlongs last year and needed her recent return over five; Sandrine, who was back to form at Doncaster last time; and Rohaan, a five-time course and distance winner and fourth in this race last year.