Maddy Playle

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Maddy Playle

John and Thady Gosden were crowned the leading trainers at Royal Ascot 2025, with their brilliant week headlined by Field Of Gold's superstar performance in Tuesday's St James's Palace Stakes. The father-and-son combination finished the week on five winners having also scooped the two feature races on Wednesday and Thursday, with Ombudsman winning the Prince of Wales's Stakes and Trawlerman landing the Gold Cup.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Maddy Playle

What happened after the race was just as extraordinary as what happened during it. France got the better of Japan in a glittering running of the week's second Group 1 sprint with the front-running Lazzat holding off the late charge of Satono Reve in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, but last year's Prix Maurice de Gheest winner was not satisfied with his experience on the straight track and opted to take an extended tour after ejecting James Doyle.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Maddy Playle

Kieran Shoemark said he has had "a few battles" since losing his role as first rider to John and Thady Gosden last month, but was left smiling following the win of Never Let Go in the Sandringham Stakes. The jockey was appointed number one at Clarehaven after Frankie Dettori relocated to the US last year, but was dismissed after the Gosdens adopted a "best available" rider position in May.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Maddy Playle

Zarigana's resolution was questioned following her defeat to rank outsider Cercene in the Coronation Stakes, with connections labelling her "slightly nuts". That was the verdict by her owner Princess Zahra Aga Khan, and both the filly's rider Mickael Barzalona and trainer Francis Graffard expressed similar frustrations as the French team were left to rue the half-length loss to 33-1 shot Cercene.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Maddy Playle

Kia Joorabchian was not disheartened by saddling his second Royal Ascot runner-up at this year's meeting when Arizona Blaze chased home Time For Sandals in the Commonwealth Cup, and promised the best was yet to come for his Amo Racing team this season.