King Charles III is set to bid for an historic victory in one of the most prestigious races in Britain next Saturday - hours after his own coronation.
Royal colt Slipofthepen will bid to win the first Classic of the Flat season, the QIPCO 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket which his mother, the late Queen, won in 1958 with the aptly named Pall Mall.
Slipofthepen is unbeaten, having won his only two starts to date – the first as a two-year-old at Kempton Park in November and then again this month at the same track for his trainers John and Thady Gosden.
