Enzeli, wearing blinkers for the first time on the racecourse, returned to the form which saw him win last season`s Ascot Gold Cup to land a thrilling Great North Eastern Railway Doncaster Cup at the Yorkshire track yesterday.
John Oxx`s charge has been a little out of sorts this season and the trainer had warned that he felt the horse might need yesterday`s race. However, the Khayasi entire showed no signs of rustiness as he got the better of Churlish Charm by a neck in a protracted battle to the line.
Winning rider Johnny Murtgagh had earlier won the May Hill Stakes on the impressive Karasta for the Michael Stoute stable.
Aidan O`Brien has given Giant`s Causeway the go-ahead to run in tomorrow`s ESAT Digifone Champion Stakes at Leopardstown following a workout yesterday morning.
The winner of four Group One races in the space of nine weeks this summer, the colt was among seven horses left in the Group One contest at yesterday`s final declaration stage.
O`Brien also has Apollo Victoria and Manhattan in the 10furlong contest. Michael Kinane will ride Giant`s Causeway, with Seamus Heffernan on Manhattan and Pat Scallan aboard Apollo Victoria.
A truly international field lines up against Giant`s Causeway. The main danger appears to be Godolphin`s Best Of The Bests, the impressive winner of the Prix Guillaume d`Ornano at Deauville and the mount of Frankie Dettori.
Sir Michael Stoute runs GreekDance (Johnny Murtagh), who won the Grosser Dallmayr-Preis at Munich last time out. Germany will be represented by the Peter Schiergen-trained Sumitas (Terry Hellier), who chased home Greek Dance in Munich and was also second to Dubai Millennium in the Prince Of Wales`s Stakes at Royal Ascot.
And French trainer Andre Fabre runs Indian Danehill (Olivier Peslier), who beat Greek Dance in the Prix Ganay.
Montjeu, will face a maximum of three rivals in the Prix Foy at Longchamp on Sunday.
Dual Derby winner Sinndar has stood his ground in the Group TwoPrix Niel on the same card. Stablemates Raypour and Takali, both on standby to act as pacemakers, have also been left in by John Oxx at the probables stage.
Oxx has supplemented Curragh winner Ancelin for the Group One Prix Vermeille, in which Aidan O`Brien`s Chiang Mai is also an acceptor.
