St James's Palace Stakes Royal Ascot entries Gleneagles

Gleneagles is among 15 entries at the six-day stage for the Group One St James's Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

The dual Guineas winner could take on another Classic hero with the Prince A. A Faisal-owned Make Believe, winner of the Poule D'Essai Des Poulains from Prix Du Jockey Club winner New Bay, supplemented.

"The decision was made a bit easier with New Bay winning the French Derby. That franked the form, although it was over a different distance," said Ted Voute, bloodstock advisor for owner Prince Faisal.

"Immediately after the race in France, Andre mooted that maybe we would do that and he was happy with him.

"I called him this morning and he said he'd supplemented him. It's great and something to look forward to."

Aidan O'Brien is responsible for five of the entries with Highland Reel, Sir Isaac Newton, The Happy Prince and War Envoy all possibles to join Gleneagles in the line up.

There could be a mouth-watering clash with the lightly-raced Consort who took his unbeaten record to two when impressing in the Heron Stakes at Sandown on the Brigadier Gerard card late last month.

The Highclere Thoroughbred Racing-owned grey was adding to a maiden win from Newmarket in September.

Immediate options after Sandown surrounded the St James's Palace or the Tercentenary Stakes, and connections have opted to take the Group One plunge.

Highclere tweeted: "Consort given green light to run in the St James's Palace at Royal meeting after pleasing in a piece of work."

Already a mover in the market, the Lope De Vega colt was cut to 8-1 from 10-1 in places.

Consort has been ridden by Ryan Moore in both of his outings to date, but with the former champion riding Gleneagles, Frankie Dettori comes in for the mount.

Highclere added: "With Ryan on Gleneagles Frankie Dettori has been booked to ride Consort in the St James's Palace."

Andre Fabre, the trainer of Make Believe, could be double-handed himself with 2000 Guineas runner-up Territories another possible.

Godolphin could also be represented by Latharnach as well, while they have a joint interest with Prince Faisal in the shape of Belardo, trained by Roger Varian.

However, Belardo is unlikely to take his chance unless the ground eases considerably.

"He's ground dependent and unless the weather forecast is terribly wrong I suspect he won't run. The ground needs to be at least good to soft for him to run," said Voute.

Richard Hannon has two entries with Estidhkaar and Ivawood potential runners.

Hugo Palmer's Aktabantay, Mick Channon's Bossy Guest and Charles Hills' Dutch Connection complete the entries.