Palace Pier (Kingman) showed why he is rated the best miler in the world as the red-hot favourite ran out a convincing winner of the opening race of the royal meeting, the Queen Anne Stakes (Gr 1, 1m). The John and Thady Gosden-trained four-year-old was winning for the second successive year at Royal Ascot, having... Read More

Poetic Flare (3 c Dawn Approach – Maria Lee by Rock Of Gibraltar) produced a sublime performance in the St James’s Palace Stakes (Gr 1, 1m) yesterday to follow in the hoofprints of his sire and become the 15th horse to complete the 2,000 Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m)-St James’s Palace double.  The Jim Bolger-trained colt... Read More

Last year’s July Cup (Gr 1, 6f) winner Oxted (5 g Mayson – Charlotte Rosina by Choisir) powered home best of all to claim a frenetic running of the King’s Stand Stakes (Gr 1, 5f) as reigning champion Battaash (Dark Angel) weakened to finish fourth.  The result delivered a first Royal Ascot winner for both... Read More

From subfertile to sire sensation: how Starspangledbanner has defied the odds It has been 11 years since Starspangledbanner (Choisir) burst onto the European scene with a dazzling display of brazen speed in the Golden Jubilee Stakes (Gr 1, 6f) at Royal Ascot. That was, of course, after a highly successful time in his native Australia,... Read More

Lucrative Golden Eagle proving hard to ignore for connections of talented rising four-year-olds The $7.5 million Golden Eagle (1500m) is firmly on the radar of Group 1-winning filly Odeum (Written Tycoon) but not before she attempts to take out a second race at the highest level this season, taking on the older mares to bring... Read More

The battle for the 2020/21 Hong Kong trainers’ championship appears destined for a cliffhanger finish after John Size ended an unlikely run of outs to move within two wins of leader Caspar Fownes after preparing a double at Sha Tin yesterday. Trailing Fownes 65-69 before proceedings began, the 11-time champion handler’s effort to triumph with... Read More