It was a family affair at Royal Ascot on Friday for Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. These are heady times.
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But Sir Bruce Forsyth, who is a regular at Ladies’ Day, was too frail to attend after an operation at the end of previous year.
New father Adam Kirby celebrated a third victory of the week when guiding home Commissioned in the concluding Queen Alexandra Stakes. It does not get much better.
John O’Shea is confident Holler’s front-running style can bring Royal Ascot success for Godolphin in the Group One Diamond Jubilee Stakes. Moore is now judged by different criteria to the rest of the current crop of riders.
I’m far too stupid for that, so back him at odds of [21.0] or bigger in the Wokingham at 17:00. He still was crowned leading rider, and if everything had gone right he might have threatened last season’s total of nine.
“Royal Ascot plays out exactly as it sounds”.
The Sydney trainer has been in the United Kingdom for the past two weeks with Holler who was galloped for the final time by jockey James McDonald at the Limekilns facility in Newmarket on Tuesday.
Around £130,000 of prize money is awarded to the victor.
Cunco is 3/1 at BetVictor for the Chesham Stakes and was the first of Frankel’s progeny to run when showing a blistering turn of foot to win over 6f.
The sun was absent for the whole week but the crowds still came.
Warren said: “He’s trying to really learn about the whole industry”.
He was withdrawn from defending his Cathedral Stakes title at Salisbury last week and will adore this surface and looks set to run a huge race. Showing the kind of improvement expected from a member of the Stoute brigade that has his profile when winning the G3 John Porter S. switched from a waterlogged Newbury to Chelmsford’s Polytrack and staged over an extended 13 furlongs April 16, the bay made all under Ryan Moore to capture the Ormonde in workmanlike fashion over that trip at Chester and was deserted by that rider in favour of the flashier Stoute runner and 6-4 favourite Exosphere (GB) (Beat Hollow ) as a result. A record 14 horses from abroard plundered Ascot’s limited prize-money in search of the meeting’s prestige.
Aidan O’Brien’s juvenile was only third on his racecourse debut at the Curragh last month, but was backed as if defeat was out of the question for his Berkshire assignment.
The indefatigable Godolphin trainer appears to be suffering the greatest at the hands of Godolphin’s increasingly expansionist policy.
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The monarch – for whom Dartmouth was the final chance of a win as her other runners in the most prestigious race meeting in England had failed to find royal favour – made the last of her previous 22 visits as a winning owner when Estimate won an epic Ascot Gold Cup in 2013.
