Royal Ascot 2021 Stats Guides: Commonwealth Cup
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This will be the seventh edition of this Grade 1 race over 6f for three-year-olds which has proved to be such a hit, so race trends are only just starting to bed in hence the lack of pointers in the final summary.
Proven quality has paid so far with five of the six winners officially rated between 114-119 beforehand (three of which were rated 117+) and the first five winners had run earlier in the season (three of them had run twice). Golden Horde was a winning seasonal debutant last season that only started two weeks before Royal Ascot. As a two-year-old he won the Richmond Stakes for Clive Cox who intends to run Supremacy who won last season’s Gimcrack.
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In the first year it was won by the Champion Sprinter, Muhaarar, beating the subsequent July Cup winner, Limato, into second place so a great start. The 2016 running wasn’t quite as high quality but the winner, Quiet Reflection, went on to add the Group 1 Haydock Park Sprint and had previously won the Sandy Lane which has since featured another Commonwealth Cup winner, second and third. Rohaan beat Dragon Symbol into second in this season’s Sandy Lane after also winning the Pavilion Stakes but is ineligible to run here being a gelding.
The 2017 running was considered by many to be the race of the meeting heading into Royal Ascot and it was Caravaggio that came out on top beating Harry Angel and Blue Point in a very high-class renewal. The runner-up and third had previously met in the Pavilion Stakes at the Ascot in April, a trial that featured the Commonwealth Cup winner, Eqtidaar, a year later who was second in that contest.
Returning to sprinting proved to be key for Muhaarar and Advertise after they had run in a Guineas so expect a few contenders that didn’t stay a mile in various Guineas’ to line up. Last season’s Lowther Stakes 1-2, Miss Amulet and Sacred, for example as they attempt to become the second filly to take this prize.
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Positives: Contested the Pavilion Stakes or Sandy Lane Stakes, officially rated 114+ (117+ even better!).
Negatives: None.