Leading Irish filly Homeless Songs won't be racing, but the two American fillies that have traveled to England for the Group 1 Coronation Stakes on Friday at Royal Ascot still face daunting competition. Spendarella, trained by Graham Motion, and Pizza Bianca, trained by Christophe Clement, were among a dozen 3-year-old fillies that passed the final entry stage for the Coronation, a one-turn mile.
The Australian gelding Ferago was winless in 10 starts until he was tried at 1 1/2 miles for the first time at Geelong Racecourse near Melbourne on May 13.
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.
