Godolphin dominate the entries for the Newmarket 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas which were revealed yesterday.
Sheikh Mohammed's Dubai-based operation, which won the 2,000 Guineas with Island Sands last year and with Mark Of Esteem in 1996, is responsible for 28 of the 99 entries for the £300,000 colts' Classic, to be run on May 6th.
They include Dubai Two Thousand, winner of his only start in France last year, and Inchlonaig, winner of the Tattersalls Auction Stakes at Newmarket on his racecourse debut.
Aidan O'Brien has 12 in the race, including Aristotle, Giant's Causeway, Bernstein, Monashee Mountain and Mull Of Kintyre.
Ante-post favourite Distant Music, winner of the Dewhurst Stakes last season for the Barry Hill stable, is also among the possibles.
Godolphin also have 20 of the 95 candidates in the £250,000 Sagitta 1,000 Guineas on the following day, including ante-post favourite Teggiano and Morning Pride.
Henry Cecil's well-touted High Walden heads the home-trained team.
Latest betting:
2,000 Guineas: 9-4 Distant Music, 9-2 Giant's Causeway, 14-1 Bernstein, 16-1 Primo Valentino, 20-1 King's Best, Misraah, Monashee Mountain, Mull Of Kintyre, 25-1 bar.
1,000 Guineas: 10-1 Teggiano, 12-1 High Walden, 16-1 Morning Pride, Petrushka, Saintly Speech, 20-1 bar.
Arthur Moore, successful with Regency Rake in last year's running, has entered The Gatherer for Saturday's £33,000 Sunderlands Imperial Cup at Sandown Park.
The winner of a Punchestown maiden hurdle last month, The Gatherer is owned by JP MCManus, whose Leopardstown Christmas winner, Brigade Charge, is the only other Irish-trained entry for the race.
A £50,000 bonus is available should the winner of this prestigious hurdle go on to win a race at next week's Cheltenham Festival, a feat achieved by Martin Pipe with Olympian in 1993 and Blowing Wind in 1998. Pipe is responsible for six of the 29 entries for Saturday's race.
The Nicholashayne trainer's team includes Copeland and Hit And Run, second and third behind Geos in the Tote Gold Trophy at Newbury last month.
Charlie Swan, who broke his duck as a trainer in Britain at Ludlow last week, added to his tally when Hot Bunny landed the Aberlady Juvenile Maiden Hurdle at Musselburgh yesterday.
Swan, who also rode the filly, made all aboard the 5 to 1 chance, putting the race beyond doubt when kicking clear after the penultimate flight. The four-year-old passed the post three and a half lengths clear of 11 to 10 favourite Lord Rochester.
There was more Irish success when the Paul Nolan-trained Frostbitten, the 2 to 1 favourite, captured the Forth FM Maiden Chase. Ridden by amateur John Cullen, the nine-year-old held off the strong challenge of A-El-Cee by a half-length.
Swan's other runner, Born To Lead, ridden by JP McNamara, could only finish fourth behind Colin Parker's Trump in the Macmerry Conditional Jockeys' Selling Handicap Hurdle.
