Dark Vision, winner of the G2 Vintage Stakes at Goodwood in 2018, bounced back to form today when landing the ultra-competitive Royal Hunt Cup. Running the famous blue silks of Godolphin, Dark Vision was a 46th Royal Ascot win for trainer Mark Johnston and a 24th for jockey William Buick. Returned at 15/2, Dark Vision […] 4z3t6e
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Lord North landed one of the season’s most competitive handicaps in 2019, the Cambridgeshire at Newmarket in October. Having followed up that victory with Listed and G3 wins, the four-year-old came of age today when taking the G1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes over 10 furlongs. The four-year-old Dubawi gelding (5/1) is owned by HH Sheikh
Royal Ascot 2020 just gets better and better for jockey Jim Crowley, who rode his fourth winner of the week when delivering Hukum (12/1) with a perfectly timed challenge to take the mile and a half King George V Handicap by half a length from 9/2 t-favourite Kipps. It was also a fourth win of
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A strong run in the final furlong saw Russian Emperor (100/30) get up and deny The Queen’s runner First Receiver (9/4 Fav) by half a length in the G3 Hampton Court Stakes over a mile and a quarter. Russian Emperor was a second winner of the week for both trainer Aidan O’Brien and jockey Ryan
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William Knight saddled his first Royal Ascot winner when Sir Busker (12/1) was partnered to a three-quarter length success by champion jockey Oisin Murphy in Wednesday’s opening race, the Silver Royal Hunt Cup. The Silver Royal Hunt Cup, a special contest for 2020, is for horses who failed to make the cut for the Royal
A new syndicate of racehorse owners, including former Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond, will be hoping Run Wild can provide them with a dream victory in the Coronation Stakes (2.25pm) at Royal Ascot on Saturday 20th June, a race that forms part of the QIPCO British Champions Series. Run Wild, trained by John Gosden, will
Roger Varian believes the unbeaten Pierre Lapin is ready to rise to the occasion in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot on Friday 19th June. The six-furlong contest, which forms part of the 35-race QIPCO British Champions Series, has been at the top of Pierre Lapin’s agenda since he landed the Group Two Dubai Duty Free
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Clive Cox says Positive has had the perfect preparation ahead of his star performer making his reappearance in the St James’s Palace Stakes (3pm) at Royal Ascot on Saturday 20th June. The mile feature is one of three races on the final day of the Royal Meeting that form part of the QIPCO British Champions
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Racing Welfare’s Best Turned Out series this week moves on to Royal Ascot with all the runners in Saturday’s Wokingham Stakes in with a chance of winning the £250 prize. Racing Welfare’s Best Turned Out aims to champion the efforts of racing staff in readying their horses to run. All yards with a runner in
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The Queen Anne Stakes saw Circus Maximus record a second G1 success at Royal Ascot. The Aidan O’Brien-trained four-year-old won the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot in 2019. Today the son of Galileo (the 4/1 favourite) had to battle hard in the final furlong, coming out on top by head from Terebellum (5/1)
