Afsare among Celebration Mile contenders

Tuesday 20 August 2013, 11:39am

Afsare will attempt to build on his recent Salisbury success in Saturday's Celebration Mile at Goodwood.

Luca Cumani's gelding, who was second in last year's Arlington Million, has had well-documented issues with the stalls but showed his undoubted ability when coasting clear in last week's Group Three Sovereign Stakes.

"Afsare has come out of Salisbury in good form and is likely to run in the Celebration Mile," Cumani said.

Trade Storm, not disgraced in the Queen Anne and Sussex Stakes this season, is entered for a slight drop down in class while among the 14 remaining at the confirmation stage are an interesting trio from Aidan O'Brien's Irish stable.

He can pick from Jersey Stakes winner Gale Force Ten, Cristoforo Colombo, who has not been seen since finishing fifth in the 2000 Guineas and Most Improved, the hero of last year's St James's Palace who did not make much of an impression on his Ballydoyle debut at the Curragh.

Premio Loco, who beat possible rival Thistle Bird in this race last year and had a confidence-boosting victory at Newmarket, is in the line-up once again while Chil The Kite and French raider Shamalgan have decent Group form too.

Aesop's Fables, Boom And Bust, Educate, Gabrial and Stipulate complete the list of possible starters.

– PAA

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