:quality(75))
There will not be a strong favorite among the 14 runners in Saturday's Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot, the final top-level race of the famous five-day racing festival in Britain.
:quality(75))
After finishing a disappointing last of 12 in the Group 1 Sheema Classic in Dubai in March and a well-beaten second in the Group 1 Tattersalls Gold Cup in Ireland last month, Auguste Rodin fought off a late threat from the French longshot Zarakem to win the $1.26 million Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot on Wednesday.
:quality(75))
The 3-year-old filly Elmalka won the English 1000 Guineas at overlaid odds of 29-1, and thanks to the presence of Opera Singer could offer a fair price again Friday at Ascot in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes.
:quality(75))
Charyn got the 2024 Royal Ascot meeting off to a flying start with a powerhouse victory in the Queen Anne Stakes, and the Australian mare Asfoora provided a rousing follow-up two races later in the King Charles III Stakes. Rosallion backed up his Irish 2000 Guineas victory with a good win over Henry Longfellow on Tuesday’s third Group 1, the St. James’s Palace Stakes.
:quality(75))
Records for the Gold Cup, which will be run Thursday at Royal Ascot, date to 1807. But in two-plus centuries of Gold Cups, no horse has wins in non-consecutive years, yet Kyprios, even before final declarations Tuesday, was an odds-on favorite to do just that.
:quality(75))
The last time Auguste Rodin and Inspiral won they unveiled two of the most dynamic performances hours apart in Breeders' Cup races at Santa Anita last November. Both are winless in limited campaigns in Europe and the Middle East this year in advance of their first-ever meeting in Wednesday's Group 1 Prince of Wales's Stakes at 1 1/4 miles at Royal Ascot, west of London.
:quality(75))
An American horse, Tepin, in 2016, has won the Queen Anne Stakes. An American-owned one has as good a chance as anyone in this year’s renewal, which will set in motion the five-day Royal Ascot meeting of 2024.
Sparkling Plenty rallied from last, or close to it, and won the Group 1 Prix de Diane by a head on Sunday at Chantilly Racecourse.
:quality(75))
Get out the top hats and tails: Royal Ascot 2024 is upon us. The five-day Royal meeting at venerable Ascot Racecourse launches, as usual, on a Tuesday, a daily morning treat for American racing fans through Saturday's closing card.
One might easily come away with the idea that while Tamfana finished fourth in the 1000 Guineas last month at Newmarket, she was the best horse in the race. Her overall form combined with her last-start performance has Tamfana near the head of early betting markets for the Group 1 Prix de Diane, also known as the French Oaks, on Sunday at Chantilly Racecourse.
