Grandera can strike another blow for the younger generation at York toda by securing the Juddmonte International Stakes for the three-year-olds, who have been dominating clashes with older rivals in the big races this season.

The Classic generation have won four of the five all-aged Group One events in Britain this summer, through the efforts of Galileo, Lailani, Mozart and Noverre.

The only exception was when Medicean narrowly beat Grandera in the Coral Eurobet Eclipse Stakes at Sandown in July - and the runner-up is poised to avenge that defeat tday.

Had the James Fanshawe-trained colt not lain quite so close to a very strong pace in the Eclipse, he might well have had enough left to repel the late challenge of Medicean, who prevailed by just half a length at the line.

York is a much harder track on which to come from behind - it lacks Sandown's stiff uphill finish - and Grandera is fancied to hold on in front this time.

That latest effort was no flash in the pan as he had previously finished a close third in the French Derby at Chantilly - where he might well have come out on top but for meeting trouble in running at a crucial stage.

Grandera is fully effective from 10 furlongs to a mile and a half, on any going, and lacking only a win in the best company.

His jockey Michael Hills has every chance of completing a quick big-race double in the following Great Voltigeur Stakes.

He partners Storming Home, who has really come to himself on his last two starts and shown himself one of the best mile-and-a-half three-year-olds in Europe.

The colt delighted Barry Hills when lifting the King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot. And he justified the trainer's decision to throw him in against the best by finishing a clear fourth behind Galileo in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes over the same course last month. A three-pound penalty should not be enough to stop him resuming winning ways.

His trainer can make a triumphant start to the three-day meeting by landing the opening Paradime Acomb Stakes with Serieux. Hills predicted a bright future for the colt after he won a maiden at Goodwood last month.

Evergreen stayer Persian Punch can land another popular victory in the Lonsdale Stakes.