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.
Last year’s race
Kyprios
Winner: Kyprios
Jockey: Ryan L Moore
Trainer: Aidan P O'Brien
Owner: Moyglare/Magnier/Tabor/Smith/Westerberg
Age: 4 Weight: 9st 3lbs
Starting Price: 13/8
Season Form Figures: 11
Previous Best: 1st - Saval Beg Levmoss Stakes (Group 3), Leopardstown (May 2022)
Last year’s race
Magical Lagoon
Winner: Magical Lagoon
Jockey: Shane Foley
Trainer: Jessica Harrington
Owner: Zhang Yuesheng
Age: 3 Weight: 9st 2lbs
Starting Price: 11/4
Season Form Figures: 2
Previous Best: 2nd - Salsabil Stakes (Listed), Navan (April 2022)
Oaks runners have a fair record given how few fillies have contested both prizes turning out again relatively quickly, recording seven wins since 1997.
Last year’s race
Secret State
Winner: Secret State
Jockey: William Buick
Trainer: Charlie Appleby
Owner: Godolphin
Age: 3 Weight: 9st 6lbs
Starting Price: 4/1
Season Form Figures: 211
Previous Best: 1st - Class 5 Novice, Nottingham (May 2022)
Last Year's Race
Winner: The Ridler
Jockey: Paul Hanagan
Trainer: Richard A Fahey
Owner: Mr Steve Bradley
Age: 2 Weight: 9st 3lbs
Starting Price: 50/1
Season Form Figures: 413
Previous Best: 3rd - bet365 Two Year Old Trophy Conditions Stakes, Beverley (May 2022)
The Ridler pulled off a 50/1 surprise last season, thus extending the poor record of the favourite. South Central back in 2008 was the last successful market leader.
