Jim Bolger was happy to find a “willing risk taker” in Godolphin supremo Sheikh Mohammed as Dawn Approach claimed a thrilling St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. On a day when American superstar Animal Kingdom badly fluffed his lines in the Queen Anne Stakes, Dawn Approach returned just 17 [...]
Declaration Of War handed Aidan O’Brien yet another major Royal Ascot victory as the bold adventure of Australian-owned Animal Kingdom came to a deeply unsatisfactory end in the Queen Anne Stakes. It is rare enough for a Kentucky Derby winner to still be running at five, let alone be flown [...]
Eddie Lynam is looking forward to another busy campaign for tough-as-teak sprinter Sole Power after he deservedly became a multiple Group One winner with victory in a thrilling King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot. A shock 100-1 winner of the Nunthorpe in 2010 for his then little-known County Meath-based trainer, [...]
Rite Of Passage will bid to regain his crown when he lines-up for the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot on Thursday. The Dermot Weld-trained nine-year-old was successful in 2010 but is a fragile soul and has only run twice since. The last time he graced a racecourse was at Ascot [...]
The first day of Royal Ascot has been raced now we are onto day two of the carnival which see’s the Prince Of Wales Stakes headline the six race card. No Australian horses feature in today’s meeting but the big fields will keep you interested with plenty of value around. [...]
Australia’s attempt to maintain its international sprinting dominance fell flat at Royal Ascot on Tuesday with the failure of Shamexpress in the King’s Stand Stakes (1000m). After looming as a winning chance 200m out Shamexpress found little in the run to the line, dropping out to finish a distant ninth. [...]
Tonight we will see the running of day 1 at Royal Ascot which looks to be a fantastic week of racing. Australia’s only runner over the week will be seen tonight just after midnight were Shamexpress runs in the King’s Stand Stakes. We take a look at the first day [...]
Camelot and Al Kazeem will lock horns for a second time this season when they square up for a tussle in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot on Wednesday. The talented duo headed a field of 11 for the Group One over a mile and a quarter with [...]
Ex-pat Australian trainer Jeremy Gask is hoping for a King’s Stand upset with Medicean Man, winner of a Listed event at Haydock earlier this month. Medicean Man is a 20-1 chance in the Group One sprint on the opening day of the Royal Ascot meeting on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) with [...]
Dunaden’s next attempt to win a European Group One will come in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud on June 23. The Mikel Delzangles-trained globetrotter famously won the Melbourne Cup in 2011 and followed up in the Hong Kong Vase. He returned to Australia to win the Caulfield Cup last year [...]
