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.
Declan Schuster's Hong Kong selections and analysis for Sunday, June 23, 2019 - Sha Tin
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.
Blue Point confirmed his status as one of the best sprinters in the world by winning the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes at Ascot on Tuesday for the second year in a row.
Six-year-old Lord Glitters won his first Group 1 race by rallying from last to nip Beat the Bank in the Queen Anne Stakes on Tuesday, the first race of the 2019 Royal Ascot meeting in England.
The turf at Ascot was drying and upgraded to “good” on Monday as any real chance of Stradivarius losing the Gold Cup on Thursday's card at Royal Ascot began evaporating.
