Starborough heads list

Starborough, runner-up to Ali-Royal in last season's Sussex Stakes, heads a list of 13 for this year's renewal at Goodwood next Wednesday.

Formerly with David Loder, Starborough joined Godolphin last term but has only had one race for the Dubai team when a below-par sixth over a mile and a quarter in Hong Kong in April.

Sheikh Mohammed's operation also have Fly To The Stars in the one-mile contest and this improving four-year-old will be going to post on the back of a game head victory in a French Group Three.

Mark Johnston sends Sagitta 2,000 Guineas second Lend A Hand on the long journey from Middleham to Goodwood for this Group One and he reports his charge in "fine form". Darryll Holland takes the ride.

Henry Cecil, responsible for the 1997 winner, has Bold Fact in the race as well as Porto Foricos, who was supplemented yesterday at a cost £18,000.

Tarascon, who failed to see out the trip when sixth of eight behind Shahtoush in the Vodafone Oaks, reverts to a mile here, a distance over which she landed the Irish 1,000 Guineas.

Peter Chapple-Hyam has confirmed Victory Note a "definite runner" with John Reid on board. The Aidan O'Brien-trained Kitza, a neck behind Tarascon in the Irish Guineas and subsequently a seven-length second to Winona in the Irish Oaks, is also among the acceptors.