Royal Ascot meet gets new Group 1 race for 3-year-olds
The 2015 Royal Ascot meeting will include a new Group 1 race for 3-year-olds worth $630,000, the racecourse announced Wednesday.
Steve AndersenAug 13, 2014
The 2015 Royal Ascot meeting will include a new Group 1 race for 3-year-olds worth $630,000, the racecourse announced Wednesday.
Garswood, winless for more than a year, recorded the first Group 1 victory of his career in Sunday’s $420,000 Prix Maurice de Gheest over 6 1/2 furlongs on turf at Deauville, France.
Aljamaaheer and Gregorian, third in Group 1 sprints in England this summer, are part of a field of 13 stakes winners in Sunday’s $420,000 Prix Maurice de Gheest over 6 1/2 furlongs on turf at Deauville, France.
Esoterique rebounded from a ninth-place finish in the Group 2 Duke of Cambridge Stakes at Royal Ascot in June to score an upset win in Sunday’s $402,600 Prix Rothschild for fillies and mares over a mile on turf at Deauville, France.
Sultanina ran down Narniyn to win the Group 1 Nassau Stakes on Saturday at Goodwood, and no surprise: John Gosden trains her.
Integral will face only three rivals when she attempts to win her third consecutive major stakes of the summer in Sunday’s $402,600 Prix Rothschild for fillies and mares over a mile on turf in Deauville, France.
There are seven older fillies and mares entered in the Nassau Stakes on Saturday, closing day of the Glorious Goodwood meet in England, and whichever one comes out on top will be winning for the first time at the Group 1 level.
Having already established himself as the best 3-year-old miler in Europe, Kingman staked his claim Wednesday to being the best European miler, period, defeating high-class 4-year-old Toronado by one length at Goodwood in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes.
Fresh off a major triumph Saturday in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, trainer John Gosden goes for another with Kingman in the Group 1 Sussex on Wednesday at Goodwood in England.
Taghrooda made history Saturday at Ascot, becoming only the third 3-year-old filly to win the Group 1 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in the race’s 63-year history.