Royal Ascot 2020: Tips and analysis for Wednesday
Royal Ascot 2020: Tips and analysis for Wednesday, June 17, 2020.
At The RacesJun 15, 2020
Royal Ascot 2020: Tips and analysis for Wednesday, June 17, 2020.
All Things started at 1 5/16 miles for the first time at Wyong Racecourse in Australia earlier this month and had an ideal performance, closing from fourth of 10 to win by a neck.
Two years in a row, Stradivarius has made his season's debut in the Yorkshire Cup in May and gone on a month or so later to win the Group 1 Gold Cup at Royal Ascot. This year, because of the Covid-19 outbreak, there was no racing during May in England, and so when Stradivarius attempts to win his third straight Gold Cup on Thursday, it will be on a much different schedule.
The formidable horse racing segment in the county of Japan has dreamed about winning the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe for years, but Wednesday in England a horse named Japan takes what his connections surely hope is a first step toward the 2020 Arc.
Simon Rowlands’s analysis and plays for Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at Royal Ascot.
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Peter Brant’s 2019 French Derby winner got back on the winning track Sunday at Chantilly – but just barely. Sottsass overhauled pacesetter Shaman, who’d beaten him last month at Longchamp, but nearly got nailed on the wire by late-running Way to Paris, hanging on to win the Group 1 Prix Ganay by a head.
Trainer John Gosden and jockey Frankie Dettori don’t have to await Enable’s intended return next month to have a memorable day of English racing. With Enable, the two-time Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner, back at Gosden’s Newmarket stables, he and Dettori look loaded for Day 1, Tuesday, of the 2020 Royal Ascot meeting.
The speed De Grawin displayed to win a maiden race at five furlongs at Wyong Racecourse in Australia on June 4 will be vital to the filly’s chances in a handicap at the same distance at Nowra Racecourse on Tuesday.