Last year's race
Winner: Candleford
Jockey: Tom Marquand
Trainer: William J Haggas
Owner: Barnane Stud
Age: 4
Weight: 8st 12lbs
Starting Price: 11/2
Season Form Figures: Seasonal debut
Previous Best: 1st - Class 2 Handicap, Kempton (November 2021)
By Paul Jones
Last year’s race
Winner: Latin Lover
Jockey: Hayley Turner
Trainer: Harry Eustace
Owner: Candour House and Partner
Age: 3
Weight: 8st 2lbs
Starting Price: 5/1
Season Form Figures: 3431
Previous Best: 1st - Class 4 Handicap, Kempton (June 2022)
By Paul Jones
Last year’s race
Winner: Perfect Power
Jockey: Christophe Soumillon
Trainer: Richard A Fahey
Owner: Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum
Age: 3
Weight: 9st 2lbs
Starting Price: 7/2
Season Form Figures: 17
Previous Best: 1st - Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes (Group 1), Newmarket (September 2021)
By Paul Jones
Last year’s race
Winner: Meditate
Jockey: Ryan L Moore
Trainer: Aidan P O'Brien
Owner: M Tabor/D Smith/Mrs J Magnier/Westerberg
Age: 2
Weight: 9st 2lbs
Starting Price: 5/2
Season Form Figures: 11
Previous Best: 1st - Coolmore Stud Irish EBF Fillies Sprint Stakes (Group 3), Naas (May 2022)
By Paul Jones
Last year’s race
Winner: Inver Park
Jockey: Ben A Curtis
Trainer: George Boughey
Owner: The Inver Park Partnership
Age: 4 Weight: 9st 1lbs
Starting Price: 12/1
Season Form Figures: 2311
Previous Best: 1st - Class 3 Handicap, Hamilton (May 2022)
Last Year's race:
Winner: Thesis
Jockey: Ryan L Moore
Trainer: Roger Charlton
Owner: Juddmonte
Age: 3 Weight: 8st 11lbs
Starting Price: 14/1
Season Form Figures: 222
Previous Best: 2nd - Class 5 Novice, Doncaster (June 2022)
Featuring approximately 30 three-year-olds, the majority of which are unexposed and from top yards, for my money the Britannia Stakes is the most competitive (though not impossible) three-year-old handicap of the season.
No favorites were safe in the three Group 1 races at Royal Ascot in Britain on Tuesday, the first of five days of the prestigious flat racing festival.
Triple Time ($70.10) opened the day with a bold win in the $961,275 Queen Anne Stakes at a mile, followed two races later by a dramatic score by Bradsell ($34) in the $804,200 King’s Stand Stakes at five furlongs.
Form was restored to a large extent when second choice Paddington ($6.20) caught even-money favorite Chaldean in the stretch to win the $769,000 St. James’s Palace Stakes for 3-year-old milers.
The fillies Lady Gold, Mischievous Molly, and Miss Shalaa will dominate the betting against two other fillies and mares and four geldings in a one-mile handicap at Gosford Racecourse in Australia on Wednesday evening.
As of Tuesday, Mischievous Molly was the early 3-1 favorite, a narrow choice over Lady Gold and Miss Shalaa at 7-2.
Miss Shalaa has the most recent win of the trio, a maiden race at seven furlongs in her 2023 debut at Taree Racecourse on June 6 in her seventh start.
