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Heading the cast-list is Charlie Lister's recent Betfred Select Stakes winner Jordansoilutions and he is joined by kennelmate Yahoo Jamie, while Chris Allsopp has booked in StanJames.com Pall Mall champion Ballymac Ace and Fatboyz Romeo.

'Vicky Cristina Barcelona', which starred Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, and Javier Bardem, shared the award with 'Synecdoche, New York', which has a cast-list including Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener, reports the Daily Star.

Also starring Helen Hunt, Shelley Long, Kate Hudson and Liv Tyler, the cast-list is classy, but I didn't care enough about Dr T to have any sympathy with his stale predicament whatsoever.

There are still spaces for pre-meeting trials next week, with Cleenas Lady the latest big name to be added to the cast-list for Tuesday's session at which Charlie Lister, winner of the competition in four of the past five years, is due to send his team round.

cast-list like this before and there is a real buzz among everyone involved," said a BBC source.