Next month's Vodafone Coronation Cup will continue its international feel with 16 horses remaining in the field after today's forfeit stage. Five challengers for the £180,000 Group One event will cross the North Sea, Irish Sea or English Channel in a bid to wrest the contest from the home team.

Arc third Borgia, who also won his home Derby and finished runner up in the Breeders Cup Turf, will represent Germany, Ebadiyla and Dr Johnson will fly over from Ireland and Gazelle Royale and For Valour will fly the flag for France.

St Leger winner Silver Patriarch heads the home challenge and is backed up by Godolphin representative Swain, who landed the race in 1996 before taking last year's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes.