Nayef, 25 to 1 second favourite in the lists for next year's Epsom Derby, will make his eagerly-awaited second racecourse appearance at Ascot on Saturday if the ground is not too testing.
He is trained by Marcus Tregoning who has also put Istihsaan in the mile Tom McGee Autumn Stakes, a race which was coincidentally won in 1988 by Nayef's half-brother, Nashwan.
Nayef impressed on his debut when beating subsequent Newmarket winner Tamburlaine over a mile at Newbury last month, but the going that day was good to firm.
A spokeswoman for Tregoning said yesterday: "They are both intended runners, but a lot depends on the ground, they won't run if it is heavy."
This £20,000 added event has the makings of an informative test, with Michael Stoute's Golan, the Mark Johnston-trained pair Attache and Saratova and John Gosden's duo Hill Country and Theatre Script and Snowstorm, who has improved all season for Michael Bell, among the entries.
The Group Three Willmott Dixon Cornwallis Stakes has attracted 27 entries and they include three possible north of England-trained challengers, headed by Tim Easterby's Romantic Myth Scarcroft trainer Richard Whitaker may run Vicious Dancer, winner of a listed race at Ayr last time, while Malton-based John Quinn could send Taras Emperor south for the five-furlong contest.
James Fanshawe is to train Champion Hurdle runner-up Hors La Loi III this jumps season. The five-year-old has been transferred from Francois Doumen's yard in France by owner Paul Green.
