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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Graeme Rodway
This is a unique test as the longest Flat race in the entire calendar and it won’t surprise anyone that the man who has cracked it is British and Irish champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins. Nobody has saddled more than his tally of four winners since the turn of the century. What's more impressive about Mullins’ record is that those four wins have been achieved from a total of just 16 runners in that time, so 25 per cent of those he has saddled have won.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Graeme Rodway |Conor Fennelly
Signora has to be the starting point in the Albany, although her sister Exactly's best came over further than this trip, so legitimate questions can be posed about whether she will be quick enough to win at six. She found things happening too fast at Naas on her debut last month, but was pitched in at the deep end in a Group 3 and kept on into third. She went off 12-1, so outran expectations, with the Ryan Moore-ridden stablemate and 4-5 favourite Simply Astounding fifth.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Keith Melrose |Robbie Wilders |Graeme Rodway
Keith Melrose, Graeme Rodway and Robbie Wilders source the best single bet on day three of Royal AscotKeith Melrose: Right, chaps. We'll bring the readers in at this point, after we've tossed around a couple of lively ones in the handicaps. I was talking up Dividend at monster odds in the Britannia, and Robbie quite liked Light As Air in the King George V. But we couldn't get everyone to agree and so now, to business. Afjan in the Norfolk?
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Graeme Rodway
The Gold Cup is the supreme test of stamina for a Flat horse, but the reality nowadays is that so few are bred to stay. There is so much speed in the modern thoroughbred’s pedigree and a look at the winning sires of this race since the turn of the century illustrates that perfectly. Sadler’s Wells has sired the most winners in that time, albeit four of his five victories came with Yeats, but his influence is undeniable.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Graeme Rodway
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Keith Melrose |Robbie Wilders |Graeme Rodway
Robbie Wilders: Right, gents, how are we going to play up the Docklands winnings from yesterday? It's the Hunt Cup on Wednesday, do we go for that? Keith Melrose: I'm not so sure. My take on that race is My Cloud only has to settle to win and I doubt I can sell both of you on a 4-1 shot in the Hunt Cup. How about Ombudsman in the Prince of Wales's? I reckon in a few months we might wonder how he ever went off 11-2 against those lumps.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Graeme Rodway |Tom Peacock
Karl Burke has been the man to follow in this Group 2 over the past three years. He saddled Dramatised to win in 2022 and Leovanni was successful last year, while he also had Beautiful Diamond finish third in between. Miss Lamai took fourth 12 months ago to boot. Punters have latched on to his apparent first string this year and Zelaina is a red-hot favourite to give the stable yet another success, following an impressive debut victory at Nottingham.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Graeme Rodway |Conor Fennelly
How many horses genuinely stay nowadays? It might seem a basic question, but it’s a relevant one given how the breeding industry has recently shifted toward speed. The best horse in this race, both on BHA figures and Racing Post Ratings, is Devil’s Advocate, but what are the chances he will stay a mile and three-quarters? He is by the miler Too Darn Hot, who has had only 34 runners in races over more than a mile and a half and eight winners.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Graeme Rodway
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Keith Melrose |Graeme Rodway |Robbie Wilders
Graeme Rodway, Keith Melrose and Robbie Wilders return to find the best bet on the opening day of Royal Ascot 2025. Graeme Rodway: There are two staying races for me on Tuesday, and a Group 1 sprint for Keith, but I think we've got to see the Queen Anne as the best betting race, haven't we? Keith Melrose: Agreed. It's ten runners, 5-2 the field, and while it's a shame firms have pulled the four places on offer it's still a much better each-way race than the King Charles III.
