Royal Ascot 2022: Norfolk Stakes Stats Guide
Royal Ascot 2022: Norfolk Stakes
At The RacesJun 15, 2022
Royal Ascot 2022: Norfolk Stakes
The only horse anywhere near Australian star sprinter Nature Strip at the finish of the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes on Tuesday at Royal Ascot had no jockey on his back. And even that one, riderless Khaadem, Nature Strip beat home despite carrying 133 pounds more across the finish.
‘He just goes through the gears. It is hard to explain’.
Baaeed, who is verging on being called a great horse, got the 2022 Royal Ascot meeting off to a great start Tuesday with a dominant win in the Queen Anne Stakes.
Stradivarius, the Gold Cup winner in 2018, 2019, and 2020, just soldiers on. He comes into Thursday's Group 1 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot after winning his 8-year-old debut in the Group 2 Yorkshire Cup, a 1 3/4-mile race on May 13 at York, for the third time, and a fourth Gold Cup win is far from out of the question.
If Love Reigns can run down a straight course on the second day of Royal Ascot anything like she ran around a turn on the closing day at Keeneland, she'll stand a strong chance of giving trainer Wesley Ward his fifth win in the Group 2, $140,000 Queen Mary on Wednesday.
Fresh from the Belmont Stakes, one of the world’s top riders is in town this week for Wesley Ward.
The trailblazing US trainer is a 12-time Royal Ascot scorer and has a quintet of leading fancies this year.
Lady Tilbury will be looking to give a new syndicate an immediate return on their investment in Wednesday’s Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot.
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