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Last year, Khaadem ($148.90) was the unexpected winner of the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes at six furlongs. On Saturday, Khaadem won the same race again, but this time paid just $34.60.
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Declan Schuster's Hong Kong Selections and Analysis for Sunday, June 23, 2024, at Sha Tin.
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After winning the featured Prince of Wales’s Stakes on Wednesday with Auguste Rodin and the Gold Cup on Thursday with Kyprios, an O’Brien saddled Porta Fortuna won the featured Group 1 Coronation Stakes on Friday at Royal Ascot. But for the first time this week, it was not Aidan O’Brien winning. Porta Fortuna resides in the yard of O’Brien’s son, Joseph.
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Do Deuce can add another Grade 1 win to his career achievements if he performs to expectations in Sunday’s $2.65 million Takarazuka Kinen at 1 3/8 miles on turf at Kyoto Racecourse.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
