#Lady Aurelia

Visitors to Ascot Racecourse will be fighting to find a spot in the shade as the world's most prestigious horse racing event gets underway today. Sweltering temperatures are expected to top 30°C on Tuesday, June 20 as week begins. The Queen, along with other members of the Royal Family, is due to arrive into the Parade Ring at 2pm, with the first…

Campanelle gave American trainer Wesley Ward his fourth Queen Mary Stakes success with a hard-fought display under Frankie Dettori at Royal Ascot. The daughter of Kodiac, who only made her debut at Gulfstream Park at the end of May, turned in a thoroughly professional performance to lift the Group Two dash for two-year-old fillies over five…

The glittering Royal Ascot festival began with three unmissable Group 1 races. Away from the racing, the Queen attended, together with Harry and Meghan - now known as Duke and Duchess of Sussex. They and the glamorous race-goers faced armed police and sniffer dogs amid heightened security. It was a fantastic day of racing and there's more to come…

The French racing community collectively love Ascot like no other fixture outside their own borders and will be on the royal racecourse in force to prove it this week. In fact the powers that be at France Galop are so enamoured of the meeting that they schedule nothing above Listed status on the Flat in opposition, allowing everyone to focus on the…

Welcome to another edition of America's Best Racing's Main Track. Each Tuesday in this space we spotlight the most meaningful story of the past week, detailing news that stands out because of its importance or perhaps the emotional response it generates. Looking ahead, if you believe there's a story this week that should be featured in next…

Campanelle: held off Sacred to land the Queen Mary When American ace Wesley Ward knew he would have to miss his beloved Royal Ascot due to travel restrictions, he made sure his powerful team of runners were being watched over by the very best in the business. While Frankie Dettori was booked to ride his key hopes, Kieren Fallon was responsible for…

Wesley Ward is anticipating a "great race" as Lady Aurelia and Battaash do battle in Tuesday's feature race, the King's Stand Stakes. American-based horse Lady Aurelia is eyeing a Royal Ascot hat-trick, victorious in the King's 12 months ago and having also won the Queen Mary in 2016. But Battaash is the new kid on the block, looking to stake a…

Making the Grade, which will run through the 2018 Belmont Stakes, focuses on the winners or top performers of the key races, usually from the previous weekend, who could impact the Triple Crown. We'll be taking a close look at impressive winners and evaluating their chances to win classic races based upon ability, running style, connections (owner,…

The 9-4 favourite, a son of the legendary Frankel, saw off Gustav Klimt, with Wootton in third. Dettori also triumphed with Calyx and Monarchs Glen. Blue Point upset leading fancies Lady Aurelia and Battaash to claim the King's Stand Stakes for Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin team. The Italian-born Dettori was forced to dismiss speculation he might be…

Aidan O'Brien's Love goes into the Darley Yorkshire Oaks with rock-solid claims and on form she probably deserves to be every inch as short as 1/2 and lower. But. There is a but. Plenty of York Group Ones, including the Yorkshire Oaks, have swallowed up and spat out odds-on favourites before, so it's at least worth a look at the numbers and the…

Denis Hogan is excited to see Sceptical test his powers at the highest level in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot. A son of Exceed And Excel out of a Royal Ascot winner in Jealous Again, the four-year-old has made rapid progress since finishing third on his Dundalk debut last October. After rattling off a hat-trick of wins at Ireland's sole…

2022 Royal Ascot Meeting. The five-day meeting (Tues 14-Sat 18 June) is always one of the highlights on the flat racing calendar. Like all big race days, here at GEEGEEZ we've got it all covered with key trends and stats - use these trends to narrow down the field and find the best past profiles of recent winners.

US horse racing trainer - Wesley Ward - loves sending horses over to England for the five-day Royal Ascot meeting, which gets going this week. The Royal Ascot fixture (Tues 14th - Sat 18th June) is one of the highlights on the world horse racing calendar and over the years Wesley Ward has had plenty of success at the meeting with twelve winners and…

With odds on shots Baaeed and Coroebus among the runners on the opening day of 2022 Royal Ascot, bookmakers could be on the ropes from a very early stage. The first-named looks certain to be the cornerstone of thousands of multiple bets and the world's highest-rated horse is firmly expected to get punters off to a flying start. As always, there are…

THE £24 million Breeders' Cup is back with a bang on fireworks night. The huge meeting - which is one of the richest in the world and being held at Keeneland racecourse in Kentucky this year - is billed as racing's'world championships'. And there are some truly mouth watering head-to-heads to look forward to in one of the last big Flat carnivals of…

If you had to guess, would you think the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint is usually a crazy result with longshots all over the place? That's actually not the case. While the average odds on the winner is around 10-1, that is blown up by the winner of the first Turf Sprint, Desert Code (36-1) in 2008. If you toss that result, we're talking more like 5- or…