1st - €206,500.00 2nd - €70,000.00 3rd - €35,000.00 4th - €17,500.00 5th - €10,500.00 6th - €7,000.00 Fine

FormscanBy Michael Graham - LAURENS ought to take plenty of beating in her bid to retain this crown. She has been in excellent form in her last two appearances over the summer, when gamely winning the Group 1 Prix Rothschild at Deauville and then being pipped a nose by Shine So Bright in a Group 2 at York. Her trainer Karl Burke reports that she "looks in fantastic form. She had a little breeze on Thursday morning before she left to catch the ferry to Ireland, and I couldn’t have been happier with her". It will be interesting to see what tactics unfold as Aidan O'Brien saddles four of the seven runners. Dual 1,000 Guineas heroine Hermosa heads the quartet. She reverts back to a mile after coming home last over 10 furlongs in the Group 1 Nassau Stakes at Goodwood. She is a major threat in receipt of 5lb from Laurens. O'Brien's I Can Fly also merits respect on the back of third-placed efforts in the Falmouth and Sussex Stakes. Skitter Scatter has had an injury-interrupted campaign after sustaining a tear in a hamstring during the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket. John Oxx has said that he was aiming for this race all along, and she is likely to come on plenty from her runner-up finish in her comeback race in a Group 3 at Tipperary at the end of last month.

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