Royal Ascot

Coventry Stakes-bound Power Blue (Space Blues), a horse Robson Aguiar describes as Adrian Murray's best chance of a winner at Royal Ascot, will be offered under the hammer at the Goffs London Sale.  Meanwhile, a deal has already been brokered by bloodstock agent Ben McElroy for Murray's recent Curragh maiden winner Ipanema Queen (Sands Of Mali), who will line out for the Albany Stakes at the royal meeting for new connections.  "We are going to the London Sale with Power Blue," Aguiar, the assistant trainer to Murray, said. "He ran...

Tuesday's PricedUp Pushes EBF Maiden Fillies' Stakes went the way of subsequent G2 Queen Mary Stakes heroine Leovanni (Kodi Bear) last term and that Karl Burke trainee's year-younger stablemate Zelaina (Mehmas) will also attempt to double up at Royal Ascot after delivering a performance of raw power in the latest renewal of Nottingham's five-furlong dash. Going some way along the road to justifying her £650,000 price tag at the recent Goffs UK Breeze-Up sale, she heads to Berkshire with a TDN Rising Star rosette in the bag after securing a...

Paddy Twomey has added another major owner to his Tipperary training establishment with the news that American-based John Stewart has bought Royal Ascot bound two-year-old Rogue Legend.  The Havana Grey colt had won two of his last three starts in the colours of the Rogues Gallery Partnership, who sent the Golden-based handler a batch of two-year-olds for the first time this year.  That support has already been justified with Rogue Legend, who was ultra-impressive when landing a conditions race over the minimum trip at Tipperary last week and has a...

Miss Yechance, one of the fastest horses at the Goffs Breeze-Up Sale who translated that preciosity when landing a Redcar maiden on debut for Jack Morland, is set to be offered for sale at the Tattersalls Online Pop-Up Sale on Thursday, June 12. Despite posing one of the fastest breezes at Doncaster, Miss Yechance was led out unsold at £48,000 by EMW Equine. However, just over a month later, the Cotai Glory filly posted a straightforward success over the minimum trip at Redcar, winning comfortably by one-and-a-half lengths.  The cleverly-named...

Albert Einstein, who Aidan O'Brien labelled 'a very, very fast horse' after his G3 Marble Hill Stakes success at the Curragh, will miss Royal Ascot due to a sprained joint. The unbeaten colt headed the G2 Coventry Stakes betting at odds of 6-4 prior to Monday's announcement on X by Coolmore Stud. "Gr.3 Marble Hill Stakes winner Albert Einstein unfortunately will not run at Royal Ascot due to a sprained joint. He will have an easy three weeks," the quote, which was attributed to O'Brien, read.  Connections of Albert Einstein...

Karl Burke, who has sent out more Royal Ascot-winning two-year-olds in the last decade than every other trainer bar Aidan O'Brien, has emerged as a fierce opponent to planned changes to the Windsor Castle Stakes, describing the new race conditions announced by the British Horseracing Authority's Flat Pattern Committee (FPC) as a "ridiculous idea". In a press release issued by the FPC on Tuesday, it was revealed that the distance of the Windsor Castle will be increased to six furlongs from 2026. In addition, the Listed contest will be restricted...

After a sizzling win in a May 23 maiden on the grass at Churchill Downs, Wesley Ward confirmed what he already knew. 'TDN Rising Star' Outfielder (Speightstown) is among the best 2-year-olds he has ever trained. So it's no surprise that the colt will soon be on his way to Royal Ascot to compete in the G2 Norfolk Stakes June 19. "I was nervous going into the race at Churchill, just because I was so excited and he's one of those colts who has so much ability, Ward said. "The...

The Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot will be run over six furlongs from 2026, as well as being restricted to two-year-olds whose sire won a race over at least seven furlongs (1400m) at the age of two, or at least a mile (1600m) at the age of three and upwards. The changes were announced on Tuesday by the British Horseracing Authority's Flat Pattern Committee (FPC) and follow the Group 1 upgrades announced in February by the European Pattern Committee (EPC), with the aim of safeguarding the production, retention and...

Multiple Grade I winner Carl Spackler (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}), who raced in the colors of his breeder Bob Edwards, has been sold to Yulong Investments and will target Royal Ascot before embarking on a campaign in Australia, according to a report in Daily Racing Form. Trained by Chad Brown, Carl Spackler won last year's GI FanDuel Fourstardave Handicap and GI Coolmore Turf Mile Stakes before ending the season with a sixth-place effort in the GI Breeders' Cup Mile. He returned this year to win the Apr. 11 GI...

'TDN Rising Star' Shisospicy (Mitole) will make her next start at Royal Ascot in the June 20 G1 Commonwealth Cup, according to Morplay Racing's post on X Tuesday. The X post also confirmed that the dual stakes winner will run for Morplay in partnership with Qatar Racing. Trained by Jose D'Angelo, the grey won her career debut at Gulfstream by 16 1/4 lengths last season before finishing third in Churchill's Fern Creek Stakes. This term, she was runner-up in Oaklawn's Mockingbird Stakes before winning her next three, including Keeneland's Limestone...

Champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins will take the first step towards providing His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen with a Royal Ascot winner from their first ever horse they have placed in training in Ireland when Reaching High lines out in a lady riders' handicap at Leopardstown on Friday under Jody Townend.  Reaching High has a number of potential targets at the royal meeting, including the Copper Horse Handicap, in which last year's emphatic Leopardstown winner A Piece Of Heaven went on to run a respectable seventh....

When it comes to American trainers winning races at Royal Ascot, Wesley Ward has no equal. He's won 12 races there. But he might want to look over his shoulder as there's another American trainer intent on winning races at the prestigious meet. In 2023, George Weaver won the G2 Queen Mary Stakes with Crimson Advocate (Nyquist) for his first Royal Ascot winner. This year, he'll be back with Sandal's Song (Mendelssohn), the winner of last Saturday's Royal Palm Juvenile at Gulfstream. The Royal Palm is a qualifier race for...