Cliffs to run two races at Royal Ascot

Dubai: Cliffs Of Moher, fourth in Wednesday’s G1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes, makes an unusually quick reappearance at Royal Ascot when he lines-up in the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes on Saturday.

The Aidan O’Brien-trained four-year-old, second in the 2017 Derby, will only get a two-day break before his next assignment under Seamie Heffernan.

Godolphin’s Charlie Appleby saddles Rare Rhythm who won the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes at this venue last June.

Roger Varian runs Barsanti for Shaikh Mohammad Obaid Al Maktoum.

Ed Dunlop’s Red Verdon, the mount of James Doyle, also figures in the £225,000 mile and a half contest.