Last year’s race
Winner: Asfoora
Jockey: Oisin Murphy
Trainer: Henry Dwyer
Owner: Noor Elaine Farm Pty Ltd
Age: 5
Weight: 9st 4lbs
Starting Price: 5/1
Season Form Figures: 2044
Previous Best: 1st - Schillaci Stakes (Group 2), Caulfield (AUS) (October 2023)

By Paul Jones

Last year’s race
Winner: Rashabar
Jockey: Billy Loughnane
Trainer: Brian J Meehan
Owner: Manton Thoroughbreds Ix
Age: 2
Weight: 9st 3lbs
Starting Price: 80/1
Season Form Figures: 32
Previous Best: 2nd - Class 2 EBF Maiden Stakes, Chester (May 2024)

By Paul Jones

Last year’s race:
Winner: Charyn
Jockey: Silvestre De Sousa
Trainer: Roger Varian
Owner: Nurlan Bizakov
Age: 4
Weight: 9st 2lbs
Starting Price: 100/30
Season Form Figures: 112
Previous Best: 2nd - Lockinge Stakes (Group 1), Newbury (May 2024)

By Paul Jones

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.

By Leo Schlink

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).

Making his Happy Valley debut after stringing together five wins from six Sha Tin starts, the Grunt four-year-old dug deep under Harry Bentley to overhaul Steps Ahead (123lb) by a short head in 1m 38.44s.

By Leo Schlink

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.

The three-time Royal Ascot and Classic-winning trainer talks us through his Royal Ascot squad.

Team Hannon’s Royal Ascot horses are headlined by Rosallion, the 2024 St James’s Palace Stakes hero who tops Queen Anne Stakes betting.

By Tony Elves

Older Horses

ARAMRAM

Winner of four of his 16 starts and currently rated 98. Gained reward for his consistency when beating Run Boy Run a length in a handicap at Newbury (6f) on his latest start in May off a mark of 94.

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.

By Tony Elves

Older Horses

ALMOSH’HER

Winner of three of his 4 starts and currently rated 98. Having his first outing for the stable when scoring by a head from Stressfree in the Yorvik Handicap at York (1m 4f) in May off a mark of 93.

“He won well at York, and he is a very good horse who will go for the Duke Of Edinburgh. I think he is very well handicapped.

By Tony Elves

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.

Older Horses

ENGLISH OAK