Blue can ensure a good week ends on a high for Amanda Perrett today. He has a fine chance of victory in the £40,000-added Ladbroke Stakes at Ascot.

His trainer has already visited the Berkshire track's winner's enclosure this week, having gained the first victory of her career at the Royal meeting with Give The Slip in the King George V Handicap on Thursday.

That merely underlined the good health of the Pulborough stable, whose Mossy Moor won at Kempton on Wednesday - a few hours after Tillerman ran a fine fifth in the Royal Hunt Cup.

All three were ridden by Pat Eddery, who can boost his bid for a 12th jockeys' championship with success on Blue.

He was on board when the four-year-old defied a long absence with an authoritative win over this mile-and-a-quarter trip at Doncaster in April.

That confirmed the promise of a juvenile campaign which had seen the colt run second to high-class pair Nowhere To Exit and Golden Snake in maiden company.

Stepping up to a mile and a half at Newmarket next time appeared not to suit Blue who could find no extra in the last two furlongs, though his close fifth place under top-weight that day was far from a poor effort.

Returning to his ideal distance today, Blue is well treated with just 9st 1lb to carry.

With most of the top middle-distance handicappers having run at the Royal meeting instead, he has been found an excellent opportunity to land a decent prize.

The five-furlong Palan Stakes has attracted a decent field. Ansellad, Connect and Corridor Creeper each look potentially well handicapped on their return to the minimum trip, having shaped encouragingly over six furlongs of late.

Marginal preference is for Ansellad, who will be ideally suited by the firmish ground and hails from the bang-in-form stable of Alan Berry.

Peacock Alley may be the best bet at Ayr. She followed up a maiden victory at Warwick with a game success at Epsom two weeks ago - despite meeting trouble in running - and could well complete a hat-trick in the Bonusprint Handicap.

Beat Hollow and Best Of The Bests will be the only foreign runners in tomorrow's Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp. The British-based pair, separated by four lengths when third and fourth respectively in the Epsom Derby a fortnight ago were among a field of seven declared yesterday for the Longchamp feature.

Richard Quinn keeps the ride on Beat Hollow, with Sylvain Guillot taking over from Chris McCarron on Best Of The Bests.