Unbeaten records on line in mouth-watering Middle Park

Mums Tipple (left) and Siskin are set to clash in the Middle Park

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.

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