In the Queen Anne we have the strongest trends race of the 35 to take place at Royal Ascot to kick off the five-day extravaganza. Sixteen of the last 22 winners had already struck at Group 1 level and it is the Lockinge Stakes that has been the key guide having featured 25 Queen Anne winners since 1980 including Palace Pier and Baaeed who completed the double in two of the last four seasons.
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Spearheaded by a pair of top-class milers in Field Of Gold and Lead Artist, we get the latest on John & Thady Gosden’s Royal Ascot team.
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Chris So hopes rising star Hong Lok Golf (127lb) can eventually ascend to elite company after the gelding’s impressive victory in the HK$3.12 million Class 2 Cheung Sha Handicap (1650m) at Happy Valley on Wednesday night (11 June).
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One of Australia’s most decorated horsemen, James Cummings will join Hong Kong’s trainers’ ranks in 2026/27. Cummings, 37, hails from one of Australian horse racing’s most illustrious families as a fourth-generation trainer and has enjoyed phenomenal success in his own right.
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George Boughey has yet to open his Group account at Royal Ascot but is hoping that statistic can be erased in the King Charles III Stakes on the opening day when Believing looks to take her exalted career to new heights.
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Team Hannon’s Royal Ascot horses are headlined by Rosallion, the 2024 St James’s Palace Stakes hero who tops Queen Anne Stakes betting.
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The Middleham maestro has the ante-post favourites for the Queen Mary and Albany respectively as he bids for another successful Royal Ascot raid in 2025.
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The old gold and peacock blue silks, which were carried to victory four times at Royal Ascot last year, will be sported by a host of leading chances next week.
Hong Kong Selections for Wednesday, June 11, 2025 at Happy Valley.
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Hong Lok Golf (127lb) passed the grade test in style last start and on Wednesday night (11 June) Chris So’s classy galloper heads to Happy Valley for the first time to contest the HK$3.12 million Class 2 Cheung Sha Handicap (1650m) after exclusively racing at Sha Tin across his initial six starts.
