Confirmed runners and riders for the Galway Plate on Wednesday

Black Corton will spearhead a four-pronged British assault on thetote.com Galway Plate on Wednesday as Paul Nicholls' classy eight-year-old tops the page for the €300,000 handicap after the 48-hour declaration stage.

As expected, Bryony Frost has been declared to ride the horse on whom she won the Oaksey Chase at Sandown in April, while Harry Cobden will partner Modus, likewise charged with replicating Nicholls' 2008 victory in the race with Oslot.

Modus is one of five JP McManus-owned contenders, with Eddie Harty's Coney Island the highest rated, just 1lb below Black Corton on 11st 9lb.

Jody McGarvey has been booked to ride Coney Island for McManus, who won the race for a sixth time with Carlingford Lough in 2013.

Willie Mullins and Paul Townend, who combined to land the 2m6½f contest with Blazing Tempo in 2011, team up with the enigmatic Yorkhill, with Some Neck and Pravalaguna also on the Closutton ticket.

Mullins's great rival Gordon Elliott, who has plundered two of the last three editions with Lord Scoundrel and Clarcam, has five runners.

Davy Russell is on last season's smart novice Mengli Khan, while 7lb claimer Liam Quinlan will partner the stable's A Toi Phil, who is one of four who will represent Michael O'Leary's Gigginstown House Stud, the firm responsible for four of the last five winners of the prestigious chase.

Elliott's Borice, the 8-1 market leader, will be ridden for the first time by Luke Dempsey. The eight-year-old, who was well beaten in the Thyestes Chase in January, has since dotted up in novice hurdles at Uttoxeter and Perth, and gets in off just 10st 2lb.

Henry de Bromhead, who has won the race twice since 2015, will saddle three, including Borice's main market rival Heron Heights, the mount of Robbie Power, also a previous winner in 2003 on Nearly A Moose.

Rachael Blackmore, like Frost bidding to become the first female jockey to win the race since Sarah Collen scored aboard Bold Flyer in 1989, will partner De Bromhead's Poker Party.

Of those representing the smaller outfits, Peter Fahey's in-form Peregrine Run looks one of the livelier contenders under Kevin Sexton.

A field of 22 is set to go to post, with the cut-off point for reserves 10am on Tuesday. Mullins's Pylonthepressure, Elliott's Mill Quest and Enda Bolger's Movewiththetimes are the three reserves after Henryville and Three Musketeers were not declared.

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