Stoute has perfect Alibi
Michael Stoute is set to have a runner in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster after supplementing Best Alibi for the final Group One event of the season in Britain.
Owner Maktoum Al Maktoum has stumped up the £17,500 (€25,500) fee to add the King’s Best colt to the field for Saturday’s mile feature after his win in a Leicester maiden last week.
Best Alibi beat Acheekyone by a neck over seven furlongs to get off the mark at the
The Freemason Lodge handler is odds-on to secure his eighth trainers' title after opening up a six-figure lead over Aidan O'Brien, although the Irish handler is also set be involved on Town Moor.
He is responsible for five of the 11 possible runners in a race which he has won twice in the last five years with Brian Boru (2003) and High Chaparral (2001).
Beresford Stakes winner Septimus heads the Ballydoyle squad along with Prix Morny second and July Stakes winner Ivan Denisovich.
Dylan Thomas and Arabian Prince, second and third in the Autumn Stakes at Salisbury last time, could also line up together with the once-raced Mountain.
The first three home in the Royal Lodge Stakes, John Gosden’s Leo, the Neville Callaghan-trained Kilworth and Kevin Ryan’s Palace Episode, could do battle again.
Newbury maiden winner Hazeymm and Mark Johnston’s unbeaten Winged Cupid complete the line-up.
