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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Peter Scargill
Ascot will apply 5mm of water to the straight and round course to maintain the going as Britain remained in the grip of a heatwave. Temperatures hit 30C at Ascot on day four of the royal meeting and it is forecast to reach as high as 32C for the final day of the fixture on Saturday. Conditions are described as good to firm on both courses with the winners of the four races on the straight course on Friday drawn in stalls one, one, two and 24.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Peter Scargill
It's a peculiar affair, the Commonwealth Cup. It's a race that has yet to really live up to the purpose of its creation at the royal meeting, but how glorious a peculiarity it was this year. Time For Sandals was the winner, a 25-1 shot who was chased home by horses priced at 28-1, 20-1 and 66-1, from a draw in stall one that was regarded as a nightmare before the first race on Friday.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Harry Wilson |Peter Scargill
The Hampton Court had a habit of throwing up future Group 1 horses in the mid-to-late 2010s but has gone a bit cold recently. If there was ever a running that would revert this race back to type, though, it’s this one. This field is stacked with quality. There are those who ran in Classics, as well as a handful of trial runners and plenty of unexposed types, some of whom are making the step up from novices.
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1 week ago | 
bloodhorse.com | Peter Scargill
gave Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore a second 2-year-old winner of the week at Royal Ascot with an authoritative performance in the June 18 Queen Mary Stakes (G2). Second to subsequent Coventry Stakes (G2) winner on her previous outing, True Love asserted in the closing stages, having been taken off her feet in the opening couple of furlongs. However, as the race reached its closing stage, True Love began to pull herself back into the race and came to the fore at the furlong pole.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Peter Scargill
Ombudsman surged through in the closing stages to defeat Anmaat and provide trainers John and Thady Gosden with a fourth winner at this year’s Royal Ascot. Settled at the rear of the field, Ombudsman benefited from a tactical misjudgement from Ballydoyle, whose Continuous and favourite Los Angeles faded in the closing stages having sat first and second in a strongly run contest.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Peter Scargill
True Love gave Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore a second two-year-old winner of the week at Royal Ascot with an authoritative performance in the Queen Mary Stakes. Second to subsequent Coventry Stakes winner Gstaad on her previous outing, True Love asserted in the closing stages having been taken off her feet in the opening couple of furlongs. However, as the race reached its closing stage, True Love began to pull herself back into the race and came to the fore at the furlong pole.
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1 week ago | 
bloodhorse.com | Peter Scargill
In his stakes debut and second start overall, 2-year-old earned a decisive victory in the Coventry Stakes (G2) with a yawning three-length gap back to the placed horses in the opening 2-year-old contest of the week June 17 at Royal Ascot. The 7-2 favorite, who raced in the nearside group, broke free of his rivals with a furlong and a half to go and powered clear up the center of the course in the style of a horse head and shoulders above his opponents.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Peter Scargill
Gstaad was a decisive winner of the Coventry Stakes with a yawning three-length gap back to the placed horses in the opening two-year-old contest of the week. The 7-2 favourite, who raced in the nearside group, broke free of his rivals with a furlong and a half to go and powered clear up the centre of the course in the style of a horse head and shoulders above his opponents.
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1 week ago | 
bloodhorse.com | Peter Scargill
is the favorite to avenge his Newmaket defeat by and Thady Gosden believes the son of Kingman has plenty in his favor in the St James's Palace Stakes (G1) at Ascot Racecourse June 17. He put that Two Thousand Guineas (G1) disappointment behind him when streaking away under Colin Keane at the Curragh, while this has been a late change of plan for Charlie Appleby's Ruling Court after he was taken out of the Derby equation on the day of the Classic at Epsom.
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1 week ago | 
racingpost.com | Peter Scargill
The St James's Palace Stakes is not just the highlight on day one of Royal Ascot - for many, the clash between the winners of the three major European 2,000 Guineas is the race of the entire week. Field Of Gold is the hot favourite to reverse his Newmarket form with Ruling Court, with Henri Matisse waiting in the wings as a live danger. So how do some leading racing professionals and pundits think the St James's Palace will pan out?Ā The big question: how will the St James's Palace Stakes pan out?
