Clarehaven Stables is set to be double-handed in the showpiece £1million Juddmonte International Stakes, which will be run on Wednesday 23 August – the opening day of the festival.

Prince of Wales’s Stakes hero, Mostahdaf and fellow Group 1 winner Nashwa, will both line up in the extended mile and a quarter race for a stable that has won it twice before, courtesy of Roaring Lion and Mishriff.

Mostahdaf, who ran twice in the early spring before a break ahead of his Prince of Wales’s Stakes’ success, has not been seen on the track since Royal Ascot in late June.

Nashwa has been busier in recent times, winning the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket and then coming a one-length third to Al Husn in the Nassau Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.

John Gosden said: “Mostahdaf, the plan has always been to come here after Royal Ascot. That’s no change in Plan A – it was always to give him the time. He benefited from time between Saudi Arabia and running in Dubai through to June – and, again, we’ve taken a similar spacing with him. He’s fine.

“Nashwa, the slow pace didn’t really suit her in the Nassau Stakes and the ground was not entirely to her liking. But she’s a nice filly and it’s important to run in races of this nature.”

Gregory is another fascinating runner for the Gosdens on the opening card of this year’s Sky Bet Ebor Festival.

The unbeaten son of Golden Horn is very likely to be sent off as favourite for the mile and a half Group 2 Sky Bet Great Voltigeur Stakes. The lightly-raced colt has not run since winning the Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot.

Gosden said: “He’s coming back two furlongs in distance from the Queen’s Vase and I think he’s going to be well suited by the St Leger distance. We planned the autumn campaign with him so that it was always one run and then to the Leger.”

Free Wind was the beaten favourite in the Group 2 Lillie Langtry Stakes at Goodwood on 5 August. But she is poised for a relatively swift return to action in Thursday 24 August in the Group 1 Pertemps Network Yorkshire Oaks. The Knavesmire was the scene of her last victory, which came in May, when landing the Group 2 Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Middleton Stakes.

Gosden added: “The ground obviously went at Goodwood. She struggled to carry a lot of weight there but we’ve freshened her up to bring her in for this race.

“She hasn’t had a lot of racing this year. She won the Middleton. Then, unfortunately the ground was too quick at Ascot and too deep at Goodwood, so hopefully she’ll have something called good ground to run on at York.”

The 2022 Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup winner Quickthorn put up a bold front-running display proved too good for them all – including Courage Mon Ami – in the Goodwood Cup on 1 August.

The Gosdens trained him to win the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot, with Courage Mon Ami now being readied for another shot at his Goodwood conqueror in the Group 2 Weatherbys Hamilton Lonsdale Cup, on Friday.

Gosden said: “We all know the Goodwood Cup was an interestingly different sort of race and not dissimilar to the Lonsdale last year, really.

“He came out of it well. He didn’t have much of a race. He couldn’t get a run and then when he did get a run the race was over. So, he had what I call a nice racecourse gallop, really!

“We’d like to run there (York) and then after that wait for the Prix du Cadran on Arc weekend.”

Saturday 26 August could see the powerful Clarehaven team bidding to win the £500,000 Sky Bet Ebor for the second successive year. Trawlerman triumphed in the 2022 renewal and Gosden is hoping Sweet William (rated 99 for this race and 4lb well-in) will make the cut for the historic handicap, this time around.

Gosden said: “We’re happy with him. The issue with him is getting into the race. I haven’t had a look at it, but it will be a little bit 50-50 whether he got in. We won it off 101 last year but I think when you put that kind of prize money up, why would people not run if it’s good ground?”

The notable £500,000 prize money picture means Gosden is more than happy to have two of his horses in training for the same card’s Sky Bet City of York Stakes, a Group 2 offering Group 1 rewards.

Gosden said: “We plan to confirm Audience and Covey. I think York need huge congratulations to put the City of York, a Group 2, at this level of prize money. You can do nothing but applaud a racecourse that’s trying to do this to attract runners. So, we hope to run two in the race to give it all the support we can.”