Blue Point adds Diamond Jubilee to his 2019 Royal Ascot tally
Blue Point became the first horse since Choisir in 2003 to win the Group 1 King’s Stand and the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee in the same Royal Ascot meeting.
Marcus HershJun 22, 2019
Blue Point became the first horse since Choisir in 2003 to win the Group 1 King’s Stand and the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee in the same Royal Ascot meeting.
Without reigning Japanese Horse of the Year Almond Eye in the field, Sunday’s Grade 1 Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin Racecourse is wide-open and an excellent betting race with ramifications for major stakes in the fall.
Advertise gave Martyn Meade his first career win at Royal Ascot in Friday’s Group 1 Commonwealth Cup for 3-year-olds at six furlongs, a reprieve from a difficult spring for the trainer based in the countryside west of London.
Rise High, the 5-year-old French-bred gelding, got within 1 1/4 lengths of winning his first group stakes in Hong Kong when he finished second in the Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions and Chater Cup at Sha Tin Racecourse on May 26.
Stradivarius’s second straight win in the Group 1 Ascot Gold Cup was jockey Frankie Dettori’s fourth straight win on the Royal Ascot card Thursday.
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Closing day at Royal Ascot could be a big day for Godolphin. The global racing and breeding powerhouse starts favored Blue Point in the featured Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes, while Masar runs in the Group 2 Hardwicke Stakes, his first race since winning the 2018 Epsom Derby. Charlie Appleby trains both horses.
A driving rainstorm could not deter Crystal Ocean from recording his first win in a Group 1 race in Wednesday’s $944,475 Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot in England.
The filly Hermosa and colt Ten Sovereigns may give Irish trainer Aidan O'Brien a sweep of the two Group 1 races at Royal Ascot on Friday.
Circus Maximus was cut back from longer distances to a mile and gave trainer Aidan O’Brien and jockey Ryan Moore their second big-race win on opening day of the 2019 Royal Ascot meeting by winning the Group 1 St. James’s Palace Stakes.