Leading Light gave Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien a record sixth Ascot Gold Cup at the Royal Ascot meeting on Thursday. The odds on favourite gave 44-year-old O’Brien his second landmark win inside a month as he also became the first trainer to welcome home three successive Epsom Derby winners when… Read More »
The third day of the Royal Ascot 2014 carnival will commence tonight with the feature being the Gold Cup. We take a look at each of the races on the card and give our tips. Special Offer: 300% Deposit BONUS – Sportsbet Special Offer 2: $250 FREE BET – Ladbrokes… Read More »
The second day of the Royal Ascot 2014 carnival will commence tonight with the feature being the Prince Of Wales Stakes. We take a look at each of the races on the card and give our tips. Special Offer: 300% Deposit BONUS – Sportsbet Special Offer 2: $250 FREE BET –… Read More »
Sole Power is set to return to Royal Ascot on Saturday after he achieved the first leg of a coveted sprint double by winning the King’s Stand Stakes for the second year running. The Eddie Lynam-trained seven-year-old will now bid to replicate Australian sprinter Choisir’s 2003 double when he runs… Read More »
Hootenanny has given American trainer Wesley Ward his fourth Royal Ascot winner with a dominant display in the Windsor Castle Stakes. Ward enjoyed a groundbreaking double with Strike The Tiger in the Windsor Castle and Jealous Again in the Queen Mary Stakes in 2009 and added to his tally with… Read More »
Frankie Dettori got off the mark for the week as The Wow Signal justified his tall reputation in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot. The John Quinn-trained colt is by Australian horse Starspangledbanner who emulated his own sire Choisir when he won the Golden Jubilee Stakes at the Royal meeting…. Read More »
Kingman streaked past rival Night of Thunder with a scintillating burst in the final furlong to win the St James’s Palace Stakes, the feature race of the opening day of the Royal Ascot meeting. Kingman, the 8-11 favourite, broke to the front from the outside and pulled away for a… Read More »
The first day of the Royal Ascot 2014 carnival will commence tonight with the feature being the King Stand Stakes. We take a look at each of the races on the card and give our tips. Special Offer: 300%Â Deposit BONUS – Sportsbet Special Offer 2: $250 FREE BET… Read More »
Time flies… and so does our flashback runner at Royal Ascot to mark the first day of their 2014 carnival. We go back two years and watch Black Caviar’s win in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Ascot racecourse. Post your comments below with what you were thinking on the line…. Read More »
Ascot Stakes Handicap ÂŁ60,000 added, 4yo plus, 2m 4f, Class 2 20 runners Going: Good to Soft, Good in places No. Form Horse Age Wt Trainer Jockey 1 (16) 607 8-57 Sir Graham Wade(IRE) 59 5 9-10 p1 M Johnston J Fanning 2 (13) 4-11 451 Villa Royale 33 5 9-8… Read More »
St James’s Palace Stakes (Group 1) ÂŁ375,000 added, 3yo only, 1m, Class 1 7 runners Going: Good to Soft, Good in places No. Form Horse Wt Trainer Jockey 1 (7) 11-121 Kingman 24 9-0 J H M Gosden James Doyle 2 (1) 11-21 Night Of Thunder (IRE) 45 9-0 Richard Hannon R Hughes… Read More »
King’s Stand Stakes (Group 1) ÂŁ375,000 added, 3yo plus, 5f, Class 1 17 runners Going: Good No. Form Horse Age Wt Trainer Jockey 1 (13) 1-18 222 Ahtoug 80 6 9-4 C Appleby William Buick 2 (1) 138-108 Ancil (USA) 46 5 9-4 t1 Joan Scott James Doyle 3 (17) 523 7-23 Es… Read More »
Coventry Stakes (Group 2) ÂŁ120,000 added, 2yo only, 6f, Class 1 16 runners Going: Good No. Form Horse Trainer Jockey 1 (12) 11 Adaay (IRE) 14 W J Haggas P Hanagan 2 (14) 1 Angelic Lord (IRE) 14 Tom Dascombe R Kingscote 3 (7) 1 Bossy Guest (IRE) 33 M R Channon William Twiston-Davies… Read More »
Queen Anne Stakes (British Champions Series) ÂŁ375,000 added, 4yo plus, 1m, Class 1 10 runners Going: Good to Soft, Good in places No. Form Horse Age Wt Trainer Jockey 1 (5) 173 7-52 Anodin (IRE) 23 4 9-0 F Head O Peslier 2 (7) 024 27-3 Ansgar (IRE) 15 6 9-0 t Miss… Read More »
Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Treve will face seven rivals in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot. Trained in France by Criquette Head-Maarek, Treve met with the first defeat of her career on her four-year-old debut when just touched off by the veteran Cirrus Des Aigles in… Read More »
The rematch between the English and Irish 2000 Guineas winners, Night Of Thunder and Kingman, in the St James’s Palace will be one of the most enthralling contests of the first day of Royal Ascot. It will be the third time the pair have met this season with John Gosden’s… Read More »
The annual fusion of high-end fashion and top-class racing which is Royal Ascot comes with added spice this year, thanks to the presence of two outstanding fillies. Estimate, owned by Queen Elizabeth II, attempts to win the meeting’s showcase, the Ascot Gold Cup, for the second year running on Thursday…. Read More »
Avenir Certain has completed the French 1000 Guineas and Oaks double to join such greats as Zarkava and Divine Proportions in winning both of France’s fillies classics. Given an excellent ride by Gregory Benoist on Sunday, Avenir Certain produced a blistering turn of foot to sweep past the leaders in… Read More »
Hopes of a Gold Cup repeat for Estimate at Royal Ascot have risen markedly after the Queen’s mare shone in a piece of work in Newmarket. The five-year-old has only been seen once since her famous triumph 12 months ago when she became the first horse running in the colours… Read More »
Estimate could face a maximum of 18 rivals in defence of her Gold Cup crown at Royal Ascot. The Sir Michael Stoute-trained five-year-old became the first horse in the 207-year history of the stayers’ championship to carry the colours of a reigning monarch to victory when she won for the… Read More »
