Lowther winner Royal Fixation heads nine contenders for Cheveley Park gold

Royal Fixation and America Queen will face off again in a top-class renewal of the Tattersalls Sceptre Sessions Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday.

The pair met in the Lowther Stakes at York, with Ed Walker’s Royal Fixation coming home a length to the good but that was just the second run in the career of Richard Hughes’ America Queen.

It is far from a two-horse race though, with Aidan O’Brien fielding a pair of classy fillies.

Queen Mary winner True Love needs to bounce back from a surprise defeat in the Phoenix Stakes, while her stable companion Beautify only gave best to another O’Brien inmate in Precise in the Moyglare Stud Stakes.

Rod Millman’s Anthelia steps up to Group One company for the first time having won the Dick Poole at Salisbury last time out and Orion’s Belt, who chased her home there, will take her on again.

Hugo Palmer’s Fitzella is another viable contender with Richard Fahey’s Golden Palace and the Donnacha O’Brien-trained Havana Anna completing the nine-strong field.

Charlie Appleby’s Wise Approach heads the Tattersalls Middle Park Stakes field, which also has nine declared.

He was not beaten far in third in the Prix Morny last time out and was expected to meet the second home from France, Gstaad, once more.

However, Aidan O’Brien has not declared him and will instead rely on Flying Childers second Kansas, First Approach and Brussels.

Clive Cox’s Coppull has a solid profile having won the Vintage Stakes but he has plenty of ground to make up on Wise Approach based on their respective performances in France.

Joseph O’Brien’s The Publican’s Son is an interesting runner having finished second on his only run to date in Group Three company.

Sirenia Stakes winner Five Ways, Hilitany and Eve Johnson Houghton’s Havana Hurricane make up the field.

Karl Burke’s pair of Boiling Point and Thunder Run head the weights for the bet365 Cambridgeshire, for which 24 have been declared, some way short of the 35 runner safety limit.