Manifest features among 17 possible runners in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot following the latest entry stage.
The four-year-old ran out a hugely impressive winner of the Yorkshire Cup last month and heads the betting for next Thursday's two-and-a-half-mile highlight as his trainer Henry Cecil bids for a sixth success in the race.
The Godolphin camp are leaving their options open, with Kite Wood, Holberg and Darley Sun featuring among five entries for Saeed bin Suroor.
Sir Michael Stoute's Ask is another major player along with the Luca Cumani-trained Purple Moon and Michael Jarvis' Opinion Poll.
Rite Of Passage and Age Of Aquarius could travel from Ireland, Kasbah Bliss is the sole French entry and Bannaby could represent Spain.
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