It might not be everyone's cup of tea but when it comes to the Shergar Cup, Gerald Mosse clearly can't get enough of it.

In the absence of Frankie Dettori, summoned north to Haydock to ride for Godolphin, it might be mercurial Frenchman Mosse, the European team captain, whom the 30,000 racegoers remember as a hero of Shergar Cups past.

This will be Mosse's sixth visit to the meeting and his strike rate of five winners - including a double which saw him claim the Silver Saddle award for the cup's leading rider last year - from a total of 25 mounts reads well enough to suggest that he knows how to cope with Ascot.

Mosse teams up with MOYNAHAN in the Shergar Cup Mile at 2.20 and together the pair look the real class act.

Sixth behind Henrythenavigator in last year's 2,000 Guineas, Moynahan's career has been a stop-start affair since but he gave a firm indication that he was back on the right track when second to Axiom at Glorious Goodwood.

Even with a 3lb rise in the weights for that run, he still looks reasonably-treated if back to something like his best.

Great Britain captain Hayley Turner is another rider who has proved fully charged for this event in the past and she looks to have a decent chance with NOVERRE TO GO in the Sprint at 4.05.

He is weighted to repeat the form of his dead-heat third with Five Star Junior at Haydock but may have the better of the draw here and has greater scope for improvement than that rival.

Turner's mount HERON BAY also gets the vote in the preceding mile-and-a-half Challenge at 3.30, given that he looked to be in need of the return to this trip when staying on steadily down at 10 furlongs on his previous appearance.

KEENES DAY, on the other hand, had his lack of stamina shown up when weakening close home in the Ascot Stakes at the Royal meeting.

Back at two miles in the Stayers contest at.2.55, he can show his true colours under Fredrik Johansson.

Keenes Day's trainer Mark Johnston is well represented at the meeting as is usual. He has three runners in the Classic at 1.45, with the bookmakers expecting Alanbrooke to fare best.

However, stablemate QUAI d'ORSAY makes more appeal.

The limited visual evidence available through the mists suggested that BINIOU was set too much to do by Richard Hughes in last Saturday's Stewards' Cup.

Provided that conditions don't become unsuitably quick, the rider can make amends in the opening sprint at 1.10.