Mouth-watering Middlepark in store Earthlight, Mums Tipple and Siskin will all put their unbeaten records on the line in a mouth-watering renewal of the Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket. The Andre Fabre-trained Earthlight has won each of his four starts to date — most recently striking at Group One level in the Prix Morny. Mums Tipple is two from two for Richard Hannon, having followed up a debut victory in an Ascot maiden — which has worked out tremendously well — with an 11-length demolition job in a sales race at York last month. Hannon has a second string to his bow on Saturday in the Gimcrack and Champagne Stakes winner Threat. Siskin provided his trainer Ger Lyons with a first Group One success in Ireland when claiming his fourth straight victory in the Phoenix Stakes — and bids to double his top-level tally in the colours of race sponsor Khalid Abdullah on the Rowley Mile. Aidan O’Brien secured a record sixth victory in the Middle Park 12 months ago with Ten Sovereigns and this year fires a three-pronged assault, with Monarch Of Egypt — runner-up to Siskin on his last two starts — joined by Lope Y Fernandez and King Neptune. Clive Cox’s Richmond Stakes hero Golden Horde — third to Earthlight in France on his latest appearance — and Richard Fahey’s outsider Summer Sands complete the nine-strong field.
