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Mick Halford's Casamento ran away with the Beresford Stakes at the Curragh on his latest start and will be ridden by Frankie Dettori, while the Kevin Prendergast-trained Dunboyne Express is unbeaten in two outings.

Aidan O'Brien saddles Master Of Hounds and Seville, with Johnny Murtagh opting to partner the former.

Brian Meehan's Titus Mills and Ed Dunlop's Native Khan also arrive with perfect records, with Dubawi Gold, Karam Albaari, Zaidan and Toolain completing the line-up.

The latter will be one of the outsiders having suffered defeat on his sole start in Pattern company at Ascot earlier this month, but his trainer Michael Jarvis feels he is better than he showed that day.

"We don't think the Ascot run was his true running as he had been off the track since July, which is a considerable length of time," said the trainer.

"He's a big horse and we just felt he was a bit rusty that day and while this is a big ask for him, we just felt it is the end of the year and we might as well have a crack at it.

"His earlier form is pretty good.

"He beat Mick Channon's horse (Galtymore Lad) and he is a pretty good yardstick having run Wootton Bassett close twice.

"I wouldn't think he'd want the ground too soft and ideally I'd really like it to remain as it is."

Conditions could be on the soft side on Town Moor, with the ground currently described as good to soft, but rain is expected before the Group One feature.

"The ground is good to soft at the moment, but it is a little bit better in certain places," said clerk of the course David Williams.

"We will have to see what we get.

"The forecast is for four or five millimetres and at this time of year that could change the ground.

"It will be raced-on ground on the Friday so it will ride that little bit easier on Saturday and it doesn't dry this time of the year as it does in the summer so it could change the ground."

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