NEXT Saturday’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot is shaping up to be a thriller, featuring star three-year-olds Auguste Rodin and King Of Steel, plus older horses Desert Crown, Luxembourg, Emily Upjohn, Westover, Hukum and Pyledriver.

Auguste Rodin will be bidding to follow in the hoofprints of Galileo by landing the all-aged mid-summer showpiece having completed the Derby double.