I WOULD love Saturn to get into the Copper Horse Stakes but I think, in Irish terms, he’s 15th on the ballot. There’s a good few double-entered though, and obviously some of them will probably be entered as well in the Duke of Edinburgh. So, we’ll sit and wait on Sunday to see which race he gets into. But he only needs one to come out of the Ascot Stakes. Mum definitely feels that the further he goes, the better he could be, but it’s a big step up from a mile and six [furlongs] to two and a half [miles].

He was good on his seasonal reappearance when winning at Navan, and then he dropped back to a mile and a half at Cork, when they went quite a slow pace. It didn’t really suit him, and it turned into a little bit of a sprint. So, we freshened him up with Ascot in mind, as we know he runs very well fresh.

Serialise is in the Kensington Palace Stakes. She’s a filly who looks still relatively well handicapped. She gives her best the whole time and she’s back into fillies only class. She ran very well on Irish Guineas weekend to just get caught late by a well handicapped English horse. She’s a filly who I think is still on the up. She loves straight tracks and she’ll relish the quick ground over in Ascot.

Nancy J looks likely for the Sandringham on Friday. We dropped her back in trip on Guineas weekend, and then we stepped her right up in the Gowran Classic, when she didn’t get the clearest of runs, but Shane [Foley] feels that going back to a mile will suit her.

If she could reproduce her run from Irish Champions Weekend in the fillies’ listed race, I think she’s well handicapped and should be there or thereabouts.

The other two are waiting games that have entries on Friday. If it goes soft at Cork tomorrow, Satin will go for the Duke of Edinburgh. She’s off 96 and she got her blacktype against Kyprios the last day. She’s a filly that we had no run with last year at all; she had very bad sinus issues, but she seems to be on the way back now, and we’ve been very happy with her, and she’s also in foal to Blackbeard.

The other one is Saratoga Special in the Palace of Holyroodhouse Stakes. She won her maiden this year and has possibly been a little bit disappointing, but she wants very, very fast ground, and she could be very well handicapped. If she goes to Ascot, we’ll see a little bit of headgear on her.

Kate Harrington was in conversation with Amy Lynam.