Scott Burton

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Scott Burton

There will be some racing fans at Ascot this week who might wonder if there might be one or two too many two-year-old races at the royal meeting. After the third juvenile jolly of the week trained by Aidan O'Brien obliged in the shape of an unchallenged Charles Darwin, their numbers might be swelled by plenty of the layers in the Queen Anne enclosure.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Scott Burton

Owen Burrows was not looking for excuses after Anmaat emphatically turned the Curragh form round with favourite Los Angeles, only to be passed late on by a flying Ombudsman. Asked if he felt there was a moment when the lightly raced seven-year-old might win, a philosophical Burrows said: "Not really, more in Ireland to be honest. He travelled great, I could see William [Buick] was in a bit of a pocket and was trying to get a bit of room.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Scott Burton

Ascot clerk of the course Chris Stickels will repeat the operation of Tuesday night and apply another 5mm of water all round before Thursday's racing. The last elements of good had disappeared from the going description ahead of racing on Wednesday and Stickels expects similar conditions to prevail for Gold Cup day.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Scott Burton

There might not be too many horses beaten last time out at odds of 2-5 to which the betting public gives the benefit of the doubt this week, but True Love justified strong market support to run out a decisive winner of a race which had, until today, somehow eluded trainer Aidan O’Brien. The identity of her conquerors in races at the Curragh and Navan was a big factor in her price of 9-4 in the 23-runner line-up.

1 week ago | racingpost.com | Tom Peacock |Scott Burton

A likely price for Rafale Design in Monday's Goffs London Sale probably went up a few increments after his success in the Prix du Lys at Chantilly around 24 hours prior to the boutique auction. The Starspangledbanner colt, registered as lot 15, is set to go under the hammer for the fourth occasion, the most recent being when was he unsold in the ring at €195,000 through Cormac Farrell's Copper Beech Stables at last year's Arqana Breeze-Up Sale.