Royal Ascot Day 5 Preview – Australia to finally make their mark
The final day at Royal Ascot awaits – can Australia belatedly get on the scoreboard?
The final day at Royal Ascot awaits – can Australia belatedly get on the scoreboard?
Day 4 at Royal Ascot celebrates the fillies, with the feature the Coronation Stakes for three year old fillies over a mile.
Fame And Glory provided redemption for Jamie Spencer and Aidan O’Brien as he graduated into a top-level stayer in the Gold Cup.
John Magnier is convinced So You Think was not at his best when beaten by Rewilding in Wednesday’s Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Aidan O’Brien plans to have three big contenders in the Irish Derby as he goes for a sixth successive win in the Classic at the Curragh on Sunday week.
Aidan O’Brien’s Await The Dawn heads a field of 10 declared for Saturday’s Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Godolphin has warned that Delegator, the pre-post favourite for the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot on Saturday, will only run if the ground is suitable.
Jamie Spencer teamed up with his old boss Aidan O’Brien on Thursday to win the Gold Cup aboard Fame And Glory.
Day 3 at Royal Ascot celebrates the stayers, with the feature the time honoured Ascot Gold Cup over 4000m.
Hinchinbrook is out of Saturday’s Group One Golden Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot and may have run his last race.
Tom Queally believes Frankel still had plenty left in the tank in Tuesday’s St James’s Palace Stakes and that the unbeaten colt will get 10 furlongs “no problem”.
Trainer Aidan O’Brien took the blame after So You Think was beaten in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes by Godolphin’s Rewilding at Royal Ascot on Wednesday.
Star Australian performer So You Think has tired in the last few hundred metres of the Prince of Wales’s Stakes to be beaten in the Royal Ascot feature.
It is hard to match what was an incredible opening day of Royal Ascot for 2011.
New Zealand’s Racing Integrity Unit has charged Victorian driver Lance Justice with breaches of harness racing’s drug rules following a positive test returned by his pacer Smoken Up after their win in the InterDominion Final at Alexandra Park in April.
Anything less than a perfect replica of the 2000 Guineas was always going to be a disappointment for Frankel fans, but connections issued no cause for alarm as the sport’s shining star took his unbeaten record to seven in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Roger Varian has sidestepped Thursday’s Tercentenary Stakes at Ascot to wait for the King Edward VII Stakes on Friday with his exciting prospect Mijhaar.
Fame And Glory will face 14 rivals as he bids to assume the mantle of his former stablemate Yeats in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot on Thursday.
Star Witness will back-up for another showing at Royal Ascot after a second place on opening day of the prestigious British event.
Flemington-based Star Witness has run second in the King’s Stand at Royal Ascot, dashing hopes of an Australian win on day one of the prestigious British event.