Richard Hannon junior has warned the world’s leading trainers that he still believes Canford Cliffs is improving as the colt gets set for a tilt at the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot later in the month.

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The superstar has won three Group Ones since finishing third to Makfi in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, landing the Sussex Stakes, St James’s Palace Stakes and Irish 2000 Guineas, justifying the high regard his trainer holds him in.

Now, Hannon junior, son and assistant to his father, said: "He travels well but what has turned him from a good horse into a great horse is that he's learnt to settle.

"I think he only got beaten in the Guineas because he pulled too hard too early and I really do think he is getting better.

"He's staying in training next year and he should go on from strength to strength.

"He's a very hard horse to beat and he's exceptional, we haven't had another one like him.

"The main aim for him right now is the QEII so we'll go there and talk after that," he explained.