Royal Ascot 2024 day one: Rosallion wins St James’s Palace Stakes after 80-1 shock – as it happened | Royal Ascot

Royal Ascot 2024 day one: Rosallion wins St James’s Palace Stakes after 80-1 shock – as it happened | Royal Ascot

Result:
n 1 Belloccio (W Buick) 4-1
n 2 Lmay (K Shoemark) 40-1
n 3 My Mate Mozzie (G F Carroll) 12-1
n 4 Alsakib (Oisin Murphy) 11-2
n 16 ran

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Result:
n 1 Israr (Jim Crowley) 11-4 Jt Fav
n 2 Haunted Dream (C Soumillon) 14-1
n 3 Torito (James Doyle) 7-2
n 15 ran
n Non Runner: 7

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Result:
n 1 Pledgeofallegiance (L Morris) 20-1
n 2 Divine Comedy (Kaiya Fraser) 8-1
n 3 Kyle Of Lochalsh (Billy Loughnane) 12-1
n 4 Get Shirty (D Tudhope) 33-1
n 20 ran

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Result:
n 1 Rosallion (S M Levey) 5-2
n 2 Henry Longfellow (R L Moore) 11-2
n 3 Metropolitan (Alexis Pouchin) 20-1
n 8 ran
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Result:
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n 2 Regional (Callum Rodriguez) 6-1
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n 17 ran

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Result:
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n 2 Electrolyte 40-1
n 3 Columnist 50-1

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Result:
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n 2 Docklands (Hayley Turner) 10-1
n 3 Maljoom (Tom Marquand) 15-2
n 13 ran
n Non Runner: 13

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Good morning from Berkshire on the opening day of Royal Ascot 2024. As the song has it, “ev’ry duke and earl and peer is here/Ev’ryon who should be here is here/What a smashing, positively dashing/Spectacle: the Ascot op’ning day.”

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For the purists, there is no better day all week. Three Group One races, the first big race of the season for juvenile colts and the historic Ascot Stakes Handicap over the Gold Cup trip of two-and-a-half miles all feature on the programme, and the jam on the mid-afternoon scone this year is that for the first time since 2016, this year’s running of the St James’s Palace Stakes will include the winners of the 2,000 Guineas in England, Ireland and France.

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The weather, for the moment at least, is also playing ball, with the going assessed as good-to-firm after 5mm of watering overnight. There is very little difference between the two sides of the straight course, either, with the GoingStick reading 8.1 on the far side and 8.0 against the stand rail. Friday is currently forecast to be the only day all week with much chance of a significant shower, so fingers crossed.

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There is always a slightly otherworldly feel about Royal Ascot, as if it is frozen in an ever-repeating loop with minor tweaks to the hats and hemlines, but there are, of course, all sorts of other things going on this year, both within the racing bubble and outside.

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The crowd figures this week will be scrutinised for any sign that the royal meeting is suffering from the same, abrupt decline in attendance that has afflicted Cheltenham and Aintree in particular this year. The sport’s prospects under a new Labour government – it’s a 1-33 chance on Betfair – will also be keenly discussed by the racing bigwigs in attendance.

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Picks for all seven races on the Tuesday card are here, the Queen Anne Stakes is due off at 2.30pm and the royal procession, if you’re into that kind of thing, will be heading down the course at around 2pm. As ever, there’s no official confirmation as yet that the King and Queen will be here, but as they’ve renamed the third race on the card in his honour, it would be rather rude not to.

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Key occasions

Notable Speech got here to the get together at Royal Ascot because the potential star of the week however it was Rosallion on Tuesday turning the tables on the disappointing Guineas winner and operating out a deserved winner of the St James’s Palace Stakes to stay up the excessive billing his coach, Richard Hannon, has all the time had of him.

Rosallion will head now for the Sussex Stakes at Wonderful Goodwood subsequent which is threatening to be quote some contest. “He’s within the Sussex [at Goodwood], he’s in all these massive races, and I can’t wait,” mentioned the coach afterwards. “He’s already achieved sufficient for me if he by no means does one other … It’s not about being confirmed proper both, it’s concerning the work that goes into these horses from all people at house. We’ve been watching him all winter, this sort of makes it a shorter winter.”

That was the undoubted spotlight of day one. See you on Wednesday for day two. I’ll depart you with Greg Wooden’s report …

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Belloccio victorious for Mullins in Copper Horse Stakes (6.15pm)

End result:
1 Belloccio (W Buick) 4-1
2 Lmay (Ok Shoemark) 40-1
3 My Mate Mozzie (G F Carroll) 12-1
4 Alsakib (Oisin Murphy) 11-2
16 ran

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And so they’re off … Intinso and My Mate Mozzie are up with the leaders as they set off within the ultimate race of the day … A Piece Of Heaven grabs the lead together with Drawn To Dream … they usually kick for house off the house flip … Lmay grabs the lead within the house straight … Belloccio takes the lead shut house … and wins for all-conquering Irish (usually jumps) coach Willie Mullins!

Royal Ascot victory for @WillieMullinsNH 👑

Gallant gray BELLOCCIO wins the Copper Horse Handicap below @WilliamBuickX for @ThurloeThbreds 🟢🟡pic.twitter.com/80RPAJ2o4k

— The Racing App (@TheRacingApp) June 18, 2024

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The punters left the bookies on the ground after the “getting out” race 12 months in the past, when Willie Mullins’s Vauban was backed down to begin at even cash and gained nicely. If there’s a candidate for the same gamble this time round it’s most likely Joseph O’Brien’s A Piece Of Heaven, who’s having his first run for the secure following a straightforward four-length success at Leopardstown final month, however there’s loads of power in depth, together with Sir Michael Stoute’s Fox Journey, who made a idiot of the handicapper when striding 11 lengths away from his area at Newmarket final month. I’ll be having a bit of bit each-way on Denis Hogan’s Tyson Fury, who arrives on the again of a promising run on the Curragh final month, however there are a lot of, many alternate options.

SELECTION: TYSON FURY

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Israr bolts house in Wolferton Stakes (5.40pm)

End result:
1 Israr (Jim Crowley) 11-4 Jt Fav
2 Haunted Dream (C Soumillon) 14-1
3 Torito (James Doyle) 7-2
15 ran
Non Runner: 7

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And so they’re off … Historic Rome leads … and is kicking on quick … Cemhaan is there as they flip for house … Israr comes there strongly and bursts by means of for a straightforward win.

It’s Wolferton quantity 5 for the Gosden workforce as Israr storms clear at @Ascot below @JimCrowley1978

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— Sky Sports activities Racing (@SkySportsRacing) June 18, 2024

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Appleby at loss to clarify Notable Speech flop

Charlie Appleby was at a loss to clarify the disappointing efficiency of Notable Speech after the 2000 Guineas hero beat only one horse house within the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot – however raised the potential for him being dropped in journey on his subsequent begin.

So spectacular in profitable his first three begins on the all-weather at Kempton, the Dubawi colt proved his top-level capabilities with an excellent show on his turf debut in final month’s Rowley Mile Basic, beating the next Irish Guineas winner Rosallion, who was once more in opposition.

In a deep race that additionally featured the French Guineas victor Metropolitan, Notable Speech was the 6-4 favorite to verify his standing as primary within the three-year-old miling division – however after seemingly travelling strongly into the straight below William Buick, the response was restricted as soon as push got here to shove and he ultimately handed the submit seventh of eight runners as Rosallion stole the present.

“We most likely gained’t have an evidence at this second to be sincere with you and Will rode his race as he has achieved many a time, now we have all the time sat off the tempo and he’s a horse who has all the time picked up when requested,” mentioned Appleby.

“Will mentioned when he pulled him out and requested him to choose up, he didn’t, and extra importantly he didn’t run by means of the road, that’s most likely the most important factor I’ll take out of it in the meanwhile in addition to getting beat.” PA Media

Notable Speech (blue colors) is nicely crushed behind Rosallion at Ascot in the present day. {Photograph}: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Photographs for Ascot Racecourse
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Wolferton Stakes (5.40pm) preview

Not one of the crucial historic or fabled occasions on the royal assembly’s schedule, however that most likely gained’t matter an excessive amount of to the Wathnan Racing operation if their colors come house in entrance on Torito, given the speed at which they’ve been splashing the money on horses with Ascot entries in current weeks. James Doyle, who jumped ship from Godolphin to hitch the Emir of Qatar’s upwardly-mobile racing operation from the beginning of the season, takes the experience on John & Thady Gosden’s runner, and should nicely see Roger Varian’s Botanical as the primary risk, with Israr, the runner-up in a Group Two at Chester final month, additionally value an honourable point out.

SELECTION: TORITO

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Pledgeofallegiance victorious in Ascot Stakes (5.05pm)

End result:
1 Pledgeofallegiance (L Morris) 20-1
2 Divine Comedy (Kaiya Fraser) 8-1
3 Kyle Of Lochalsh (Billy Loughnane) 12-1
4 Get Shirty (D Tudhope) 33-1
20 ran

Pledgeofallegiance takes the @Ascot Stakes for @Luke_Morris88 and Sir Mark Prescott!

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— Sky Sports activities Racing (@SkySportsRacing) June 18, 2024

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Ascot Stakes (5.05pm)

And so they’re off … solely two-and-a-half miles to go … Kyle Of Lochalsh was a sluggish starter and it’s Boher Street who takes them alongside within the early levels of the competition … Zanndabad, the well-backed favorite, is in about ninth spot on the rails … subsequent to him is Divine Comedy who has additionally been nicely supported within the betting … Pledgeofallegiance is in an excellent place as they flip in the direction of house with a mile to go … on the house flip now … Pied Piper makes progress … Pledgeofallegiance leads and Divine Comedy comes with an enormous run … however Pledgeofallegiance holds on!

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Ascot Stakes (5.05pm) preview

It’s all the time one of many grand Royal Ascot spectacles as an enormous area of staying handicappers kilos round two-and-a-half miles, and there’s a potential sprint of controversy so as to add to the combination on this yr’s race too, because the favorite, Zanndabad, was educated till not too long ago by Tony Martin, who’s at present serving a three-month ban from racing after one in every of his runners failed a dope take a look at. In his absence, the horse is operating within the title of his sister, Cathy O’Leary, who has taken management of lots of her brother’s horses at some point of his ban. She may due to this fact pull off the bizarre feat of coaching a Royal Ascot winner along with her first runner, however there are a lot of very stay contenders out to cease her, together with Harry Eustace’s Divine Comedy, who appears to be like positive to understand the additional half-mile after a strong-staying success over two miles at Haydock in Might.

SELECTION: DIVINE COMEDY

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Aussie raider Asfoora sprints to success

Australian sprinting star Asfoora justified the lengthy journey throughout the globe to energy to King Charles III Stakes glory. Henry Dwyer’s cost had completed fourth on her British debut within the Temple Stakes at Haydock final month, however she clearly loved the sooner floor at Royal Ascot to turn into Australia’s sixth winner of this race by a size.

Asfoora joins Choisir (2003), Takeover Goal (2006), Miss Andretti(2007), Scenic Blast (2009) and Nature Strip (2022) on the Australian roll of honour in what was previously the King’s Stand Stakes.

A jubilant Dwyer mentioned: “We’ve bought so many individuals right here – not solely the house owners of Asfoora, however 40 or 50 of my house owners from house who would noticed the top of their leg off to have a runner at Royal Ascot. It’s superb. I feel there would be the mom of all events tonight!

“We wanted a lead-up run at Haydock, so she came visiting early, however simply with the altering of seasons we wished to be right here earlier than it was too chilly in Australia and too heat over right here. We came visiting within the good interchange interval, and we’d like not have anxious as a result of she settled in brilliantly, and the proof was within the pudding in the present day.” PA Media

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Rosallion storms the St James’s Palace Stakes (4.25pm)

End result:
1 Rosallion (S M Levey) 5-2
2 Henry Longfellow (R L Moore) 11-2
3 Metropolitan (Alexis Pouchin) 20-1
8 ran
Additionally: 6-4 Fav Notable Speech.

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And so they’re off … Henry Longfellow is out speedily however it’s Unquestionable that has the early lead … Notable Speech is in the direction of the again … they flip for house … Rosallion is caught behind horses however will get by means of and catches Henry Longfellow to win.

An enormous win for @LeveySean !💛

An unbelievable flip of foot from Rosallion💪 https://t.co/yQi7rCfPWE

— Nice British Racing (@GBRacing) June 18, 2024

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St James’s Palace Stakes (4.25pm) preview

As beforehand famous, this can be a cracking renewal of Tuesday’s function, and the primary time for eight years that the winners of the English, Irish and French 2,000 Guineas have all gone to submit. Notable Speech, the Newmarket winner, is at present round 5-4 to verify the type of his win over Rosallion, who then went on to win the Irish equal, whereas Metropolitan, the winner in France, is now – a bit of surprisingly, maybe – the 40-1 outsider of your entire area having been priced up at round 20-1 yesterday. The French kind does have a consultant close to the highest of the betting, although, as Aidan O’Brien’s Henry Longfellow, who bought no run in any respect at Longchamp, is the third-favourite at round 5-1. Anybody on the lookout for different to the three Basic winners will most likely wish to give Almaqam, the Heron Stakes winner, a once-over, whereas Alnayaabi, who completed fifth within the English 2,000 Guineas, can be attracting some curiosity at round 16-1. This really feels fairly simple to me: I feel the Newmarket kind is the perfect on provide by a way, and Rosallion’s subsequent success in Eire backs that up. Notable Speech has a excessive cruising velocity, a pointy flip of foot and loads of scope for additional progress and he appears to be like a really worthy favorite.

SELECTION: NOTABLE SPEECH

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Aussie runner Asfoora wins the King Charles III Stakes (3.05pm)

End result:
1 Asfoora (Oisin Murphy) 5-1
2 Regional (Callum Rodriguez) 6-1
3 Massive Evs (Tom Marquand) 11-4 Fav
17 ran

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This shall be over in a short time so pardon the transient description … they usually’re off … Regional leads early … and Rogue Lightning bought a sluggish begin … Massive Evs takes the lad and goes for house… Asfoora grabs the lead and takes the large prize. It’s an Aussie success.

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— ITV Racing (@itvracing) June 18, 2024

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Non-runner alert

Sure Lad is out of the Wolferton Stakes (5.40) on account of the bottom.

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A really shifting success for Sam Sangster within the Coventry Stakes with Rashabar and nice to see the well-known colors related along with his household within the winner’s enclosure at Royal Ascot.

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Rashabar a shock winner of Coventry at 80-1

Rashabar held off the late problem of Wathnan Racing duo Electrolyte and Columnist to say the Coventry Stakes in a desperately tight end, within the course of returning some very well-known silks to the Royal Ascot winner’s enclosure.

Brian Meehan’s cost had not managed to get his head in entrance in his first two appearances, regardless of promising shows at Newbury and Chester, however the Holy Roman Emperor colt – within the colors related for therefore lengthy with the late Robert Sangster – had simply sufficient within the tank to attain as an 80-1 winner by a nostril.

Beneath the steering of teenager Billy Loughnane, Rashabar led a bunch of eight on the far rail, bursting forward inside the ultimate furlong and stretching his benefit to over a size as he regarded to have a transparent path to the ending line.

Electrolyte (Hollie Doyle) and Columnist (Oisin Orr) completed strongly, nevertheless, and quickly decreased Rashabar’s lead, however the profitable submit got here simply in time as Loughnane, 18, celebrated his first profession winner on the Royal assembly by the smallest of margins.

Rashabar runs within the title of Manton Thoroughbreds, and Sangster’s son, Sam, was emotional as he mentioned: “I’m just about in tears behind my sun shades, it was superb. Brian has believed within the horse from day one and I actually did really feel we had an enormous likelihood.

“There was a purpose I set the syndicate up 10 years in the past, to maintain the colors going. We have now numerous runners, it’s been unbelievable within the final couple of years. We had Isaac Shelby final yr and this fellow this yr. I’m a bit misplaced for phrases and emotional, particularly once you speak concerning the colors and my outdated man.”
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Shirely Ballas is on the races … the Strictly Come Dancing choose has backed Giovanni Pernice amid a BBC probe into allegations of “severe misconduct” in opposition to him, as reported in these tabloid papers in the present day.

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King Charles III Stakes (3.45pm) market movers

Rashabar ridden by Billy Loughnane (centre) on their method to profitable the Coventry Stakes. {Photograph}: John Walton/PA
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King Charles III Stakes (3.45pm) preview

The brand new moniker for the King’s Stand Stakes, Ascot’s Group One dash over 5 furlongs, or 1000m in case you are the connections of Australian-trained Asfoora, one in every of solely a handful of runners from exterior Europe at this yr’s assembly. She warmed up for in the present day’s race when setting off because the 4-1 joint-favourite for the Temple Stakes at Haydock final month, and whereas she was solely fifth behind Kerdos – who additionally traces up for this – she regarded as if she would come on a lot for the outing. The doubtless favorite, although, is the massively standard Massive Evs, who gave coach Mick Appleby the most important second of his profession to this point when profitable the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Dash at Santa Anita final yr. He made a extremely promising comeback at York in Might, when Tom Marquand rode a extra affected person race than ordinary on a horse who usually races proper up with the tempo. That may very well be a helpful tweak at a observe the place the uphill end doesn’t usually favour front-running sprinters.

SELECTION: ASFOORA

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Rashabar wins Coventry Stakes (3.05pm) at 80-1

End result:
1 Rashabar 80-1
2 Electrolyte 40-1
3 Columnist 50-1

A primary Royal @Ascot winner for @loughnane_billy! 👏 pic.twitter.com/vwufD71yUY

— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) June 18, 2024

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And so they’re off … Cool Hoof Luke is off quick … they’ve spilt in two once more … Rashabar is kicking on … that’s actually shut on the line between Columnist, Electrolyte and Rashabar! Rashabar wins it … and that’s an 80-1 winner!!

@brianmeehanltd

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— Sky Sports activities Racing (@SkySportsRacing) June 18, 2024

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Charyn clear-cut winner of Queen Anne

Charyn ran out a decisive winner of the Queen Anne Stakesat Royal Ascot, the opening race of the 2024 assembly. Skilled by Roger Varian and ridden by Silvestre de Sousa, the four-year-old has progressed at a charge of knots this season and went one higher than final outing within the Lockinge at Newburyto win because the 100-30 favorite.

The race was one thing of an odd spectacle as two of the French raiders, Massive Rock and Facteur Cheval, raced on their very own on the far aspect, whereas the remainder of the sphere adopted Robert Havlin on Lockinge winner Viewers.

De Sousa was not as far behind Viewers as he had been at Newburyand appeared to be holding all of the aces with two furlongs to run when he kicked on. Hayley Turner and Docklands gave admirable chase to say a transparent second, crushed two and 1 / 4 lengths, whereas Maljoom ran on for third, as Charyn claimed the primary Group One victory of his profession.

Varian mentioned: “It doesn’t get any higher, a Group One at Royal Ascot. I’m so delighted. I’m actually so delighted for his proprietor [Nurlan Bizakov], who has invested a lot within the recreation, he’s supported me for plenty of years.

“I’m delighted for my workforce, everybody works so arduous at house. It’s an excellent day and we’ll get pleasure from it. It’s important to say he’s improved as he’s bought older. He ran some wonderful races in defeat final yr, he was within the largest races, on the highest desk and he didn’t shame himself.

“He appears to have discovered one other stage of kind this yr. His run within the Lockinge final time was an excellent run, and he’s confirmed that in the present day, so I’m thrilled. Silvestre is satisfied he’ll keep a mile and 1 / 4, and I sort of agree with him, however he’s not doing a lot unsuitable over a mile in the meanwhile, so I wouldn’t be in a rush to vary issues.” PA Media

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Happening to the beginning for the Coventry Stakes …

Off to the beginning within the Coventry with @LeveySean aboard The Actor! pic.twitter.com/KiCSzCGBiJ

— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) June 18, 2024

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Coventry Stakes (3.05pm) preview

An enormous area for Britain’s first juvenile Group Two occasion of the season, however no standout contender within the betting with Camille Pisarro and Cowardofthecounty, educated by Aidan O’Brien and his son Joseph respectively, vying for favouritism at round 11-2. Camille Pisarro was a head behind Arizona Blaze, a number one contender for Thursday’s Norfolk Stakes, on the Curragh final outing, whereas Cowardofthecounty arrives on the again of a two-and-a-half size defeat of Whistlejacket, one other massive runner within the Norfolk, in a maiden on the Curragh in April. Andesite, who took a heat maiden at York in Might, has been scratched this morning however Yah Mo Be There, the runner-up, remains to be within the operating and distinguished within the lists. There are a lot extra contenders to ponder, however this felt like a race which may see an upset once I sifted by means of the shape yesterday and I’ll be having a bit each-way on one in every of Richard Fahey’s runners, Columnist. He’s a 33-1 shot, however gained his solely begin to date in a helpful time and has what may show to be a helpful attract stall 15, close to a number of of the likeliest pace-setters.

SELECTION: COLUMNIST

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Charyn wins Queen Anne Stakes (2.30pm)

End result:
1 Charyn (S De Sousa) 10-3 Fav
2 Docklands (Hayley Turner) 10-1
3 Maljoom (Tom Marquand) 15-2
13 ran
Non Runner: 13

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— ITV Racing (@itvracing) June 18, 2024

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And so they’re off … Massive Rock is out quick and leads on the far aspect with many of the runners on the nearside! Viewers has the lead there with Witch Hunter final … Viewers goes for house … Charyn has kicked clear and wins in type!

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Queen’s Hat (2pm) Stakes market mover

Docklands 9/1 (was 12/1)

Full particulars by way of Oddspedia

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1 Blue 3-1 fav

King Charles III and Queen Camilla lead the Royal procession on day one at Royal @Ascot! pic.twitter.com/6cUf1RlTmX

— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) June 18, 2024

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The Queen Anne Stakes is subsequent, the normal curtain raiser at Royal Ascot. Little question it gained’t come near the controversy that surrounded the 1974 operating of the race. Let Chris Cook dinner of the Racing Submit be your information … ‘You’ll all be far too busy looking for winners, or agonising over unfortunate losers, to consider this as soon as the motion begins at Royal Ascot subsequent week. So let me point out now that we’re mere days from the fiftieth anniversary of one of the crucial infamous of all horse races, the Queen Anne Stakes of 1974. For anybody who complains about interference as typically as I do, it’s required viewing. Should you don’t know the story, take a look on the closing levels right here. “Positive to be a stewards’ inquiry right here,” mentioned Peter O’Sullevan because the runners had been cantering again in the direction of the stands. “It was an actual bumping, battling end.” However certainly he didn’t count on the eventual verdict, that the primary three finishers had been all disqualified – probably the one time this has occurred within the historical past of British racing. The prize was handed to the Italian-trained Brook, who had stayed on right into a distant fourth place.’

The infamous 1974 Queen Anne Stakes.
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Queen Anne Stakes (2.30pm) betting

‘I can’t consider Royal Scotsman’s not operating’ {Photograph}: Neil Corridor/EPA
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Greg Wooden

Queen Anne Stakes (2.30pm) preview

Royal Ascot will get off to its conventional flying begin with a Group One occasion over a mile, and the race by which the mighty Frankel put up the best efficiency of his profession, in response to the scores no less than. There’s, after all, nothing in in the present day’s race that might get to inside half a dozen lengths of the best horse of current many years, however that does additionally imply that it’s a extremely aggressive renewal and likewise one by which there are a number of questions for a few of the principals to reply. The great-to-firm floor will not be preferrred for both Massive Rock, who can be a really heat favorite on simpler going having posted an immense efficiency to win the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes over observe and journey in October. An identical remark applies to Facteur Cheval, the runner-up behind Massive Rock in that race, whereas the advantage of the shape within the Lockinge Stakes in Might, when Viewers raced alone and beat Charyn by one-and-three-quarter lengths, is questionable, because the winner’s time was not more than middling-to-decent. I nonetheless grind my tooth when recalling Maljoom’s desperately unfortunate run within the St James’s Palace Stakes right here two years in the past, when he carried the extra burden of being the Guardian’s nap of the day however ought to actually have gained by a comfy size. He has not proven a lot in simply two runs since, although, and I’m going to take an opportunity as an alternative on Harry Eustace’s Docklands, who put up one of many handicap performances of the season to win the Britannia Handicap over this course and distance 12 months in the past.

SELECTION: DOCKLANDS

Sneakers off already, and it’s not even the primary race but! {Photograph}: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Photographs for Ascot Racecourse
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Listed below are the horses you’ll be able to cross off in the present day as they aren’t turning up

Royal Ascot non-runners

2.30pm Queen Anne Stakes (Group 1) (British Champions Sequence)

13 Royal Scotsman (self cert – bruised foot)

3.05pm Coventry Stakes (Group 2)

2 Andesite (self cert – injured in field)

Beautiful shot of racegoer in the present day. {Photograph}: Neil Corridor/EPA
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Queen’s Hat Stakes (2pm) preview

There was all the time a full of life betting market on the color of the Queen’s hat when Queen Elizabeth II was attending the assembly and whereas there are odds accessible from Ladbrokes on what color tifter Queen Camilla shall be sporting, the good folks at BestofBets.com have given would-be backers a robust pointer: “In terms of the style stakes, Queen Camilla is much less daring than Her late Majesty and she or he’s unlikely to attempt to stay as much as the rainbow-hued sartorial requirements set by her late-mother-in-law. As an alternative, focus is more likely to be on softer, much less daring, colors, particularly throughout the first half of the week.”

Ladbrokes betting:

  • 3/1 – Blue/Navy

  • 4/1 – Cream/White

  • 5/1 – Pink/Peach

  • 6/1 – Yellow

  • 8/1 – Purple

  • 8/1 – Pink

Queen Camilla, in a cream/white creation, and King Charles III finally yr’s Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: Chris Jackson/Getty Photographs
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Frankie Dettori’s right here … however he gained’t be using. There was some hypothesis that he can be makein a comeback however his administration workforce informed the Racing Submit: “He shall be having fun with some high quality time with household and associates, having his first expertise of the assembly out of the saddle.”

The opposite aspect of the fence.. @Ascot pic.twitter.com/8Zkoxxon9y

— Frankie Dettori (@FrankieDettori) June 18, 2024

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We have now the primary of our common every day market movers bulletin in courtesy of the oldsters at Oddschecker. These are the horses being supported within the betting in the present day:

2.30 Queen Anne Stakes
Maljoom
, was 10/1, now 7/1
Docklands, was 16/1, now 12/1

Punters favouring backing a number of outsiders right here, with the favourites a bit of uneasy within the morning markets.

3.05 Coventry Stakes
Yah Mo Be There
, was 10/1, now 7/1 (with this worth below risk)

This market has been impacted by the withdrawal of Andesite (6/1 at time of withdrawal)

5.05 Ascot Stakes
Nusret
, was 12/1, now 8/1
Divine Comedey, was 12/1, now 7/1

Apparently racegoer Vivienne Jenner is below that Love Hearts hat. {Photograph}: David Davies/PA
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Royal Procession (2pm)

The runners are in for the primary occasion, the one which the majority of the group are maybe extra captivated by than the precise races. The Day by day Telegraph is reporting that the King shall be there all week bar Wednesday and the Queen on all 5 days this week.

1st Carriage
The King
The Queen
The Duke of Wellington
The Duchess of Wellington

2nd Carriage
The Princess Royal
The Woman Gabriella Kingston
Mr. Peter Phillips
Mr. John Warren

third Carriage
The Earl of Halifax
The Countess of Halifax
Mrs. Simon Elliot
Sir Ben Elliot

4th Carriage
Sir Johnny Weatherby
Woman Weatherby
Mr Ralph Beckett
Mrs Ralph Beckett

Royal Procession particulars are in. {Photograph}: John Walton/PA
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“You sound and look very completely satisfied”

Chris Stickels, the clerk of the course as he’s named in racing parlance, is in control of making ready the all-important Ascot turf and he appears extremely relaxed this yr.

The Royal @Ascot observe is trying GORGEOUS for day one! pic.twitter.com/WXzb4ah1He

— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) June 18, 2024

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The going for day one, as outlined in Greg’s preamble, is: Good to Agency.

We’ll be posting the going stick readings each day right here presently however it may very well be a waste of time given the climate forecast appears to be set truthful. Maybe the watering will make a distinction. At current there doesn’t appear to be any nice benefit on eiother aspect of the straight observe.

GoingStick readings at 8am:
Stands’ aspect
: 8.0
Centre: 7.9
Far aspect: 8.1

Loving the specs. {Photograph}: David Davies/PA
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Welcome to Royal Ascot day one … the gates have been open for an hour or so and the oldsters of their finery are pouring in.

The gates are open! 🙌#RoyalAscot2024 pic.twitter.com/2rh2l6C2n2

— Racing Submit (@RacingPost) June 18, 2024

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Preamble

Greg Wooden

Good morning from Berkshire on the opening day of Royal Ascot 2024. Because the track has it, “ev’ry duke and earl and peer is right here/Ev’ryon who needs to be right here is right here/What a smashing, positively dashing/Spectacle: the Ascot op’ning day.”

For the purists, there isn’t any higher day all week. Three Group One races, the primary massive race of the season for juvenile colts and the historic Ascot Stakes Handicap over the Gold Cup journey of two-and-a-half miles all function on the programme, and the jam on the mid-afternoon scone this yr is that for the primary time since 2016, this yr’s operating of the St James’s Palace Stakes will embody the winners of the two,000 Guineas in England, Eire and France.

The climate, for the second no less than, can be enjoying ball, with the going assessed as good-to-firm after 5mm of watering in a single day. There’s little or no distinction between the 2 sides of the straight course, both, with the GoingStick studying 8.1 on the far aspect and eight.0 in opposition to the stand rail. Friday is at present forecast to be the one day all week with a lot likelihood of a major bathe, so fingers crossed.

There’s all the time a barely otherworldly really feel about Royal Ascot, as whether it is frozen in an ever-repeating loop with minor tweaks to the hats and hemlines, however there are, after all, all types of different issues occurring this yr, each throughout the racing bubble and outdoors.

The group figures this week shall be scrutinised for any signal that the royal assembly is affected by the identical, abrupt decline in attendance that has bothered Cheltenham and Aintree particularly this yr. The game’s prospects below a brand new Labour authorities – it’s a 1-33 likelihood on Betfair – may also be keenly mentioned by the racing bigwigs in attendance.

Picks for all seven races on the Tuesday card are right here, the Queen Anne Stakes is due off at 2.30pm and the royal procession, should you’re into that sort of factor, shall be heading down the course at round 2pm. As ever, there’s no official affirmation as but that the King and Queen shall be right here, however as they’ve renamed the third race on the cardboard in his honour, it will be somewhat impolite to not.

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