From the Hannon stable that has won this five times since 2008, he was beaten only by the top-class Caravaggio in the Coventry and has since won Newmarket's July Stakes, beating Intelligence Cross, who lines up again here.
De Bromhead's team includes Heron Heights (3.55), a significant rival for Tiger Roll, while another Irish raider with a big chance is Charles Byrnes Black Warriorr (2.10) in the opening novice hurdle, a race which was won by the top-class hurdler The New One four years ago.
Ruler Of The World, a half-brother by Galileo to the top-class middle-distance performer Duke Of Marmalade, was an impressive winner of the Chester Vase here on the second day of the May meeting and seems certain to be among Aidan O'Brien's runners in the Derby at Epsom on 1 June.
The dispute grew even more personal when another Tory, the Eurosceptic Sir Teddy Taylor, complained about the cost of the "top-class" hotels used by the committee when they travelled to Germany to see how the euro was working.
The top-class Irish combination of trainer Gordon Elliott and jockey Paul Carberry are represented by Chicago Grey.
Indeed in few other cities could one spend a day wandering through labyrinthine markets, take in extraordinary history and architecture, swim in clear blue seas and round off the day by watching top class live music over a sumptuous dinner.
The Winterberg track is one of 14 sanctioned by the governing body, FIBT, to host top class competition and is a regular on the World Cup calendar.
The sheer dominance by the top two social classes of Oxford and Cambridge University admissions has been revealed in newly released data.
(He was all for high wages, by the way, on the now old-fashioned grounds that the actual wealth of a society can be discerned not by how much its top class has — you can find rich topsters in Ur or ancient Egypt — but by the dissemination of wealth to the many. "The high price of labor," he wrote, "is the essence of public opulence").
All the opponents are top class.
The club's official history describes this as "probably the finest team performance against top class opposition ever produced" by a Birmingham team.
