#Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes

Newsboy fancies Baaeed to take star billing at Ascot as the unbeaten four-year-old bids to bow out in the Champion Stakes with an 11th straight win Ascot hosts the six-race Qipco Champions Day meeting on Saturday October 15 BAAEED tops the bill as a glittering cast list assembles for the £4million QIPCO British Champions Day seasonal finale at…

More has made it all the merrier for the multiple members of the Fred Archer Racing syndicate, who have shared the sort of ride an owner could spend millions on without coming close to thanks to their redoubtable old-stager The Tin Man. Saturday's run in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes marked the sixth year in succession he has competed for Group 1…

BAAEED is the star attraction on British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday afternoon and he can end on a high with victory in the Group One QIPCO Champion Stakes (British Champions Middle Distance) (4pm). But at cramped odds he is not really a betting proposition but his Willie Haggas' stable-mate SEA LA ROSA certainly is in the Group One QIPCO…

Who will rise to the challenge at Ascot on Saturday? Andy Stephens shares his best bets and suggests potentially underestimated runners to keep in mind. 1.25 Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup (Group 2) THE TIP: ELDAR ELDAROV at a general 5-2 No three-year-old has won this race since it was first run in 2011 but that masks the fact that…

Trueshan announced himself as the heir to Stradivarius' staying crown when defending the Long Distance Cup as the evens favourite in 2021. But one of the driest summers on record, combined with the emergence of Kyprios as a staying superpower, has seen Trueshan's place at the two-mile top table come under threat. Although producing a fine…

Trueshan announced himself as the heir to Stradivarius' staying crown when defending the Long Distance Cup as the evens favourite in 2021. But one of the driest summers on record, combined with the emergence of Kyprios as a staying superpower, has seen Trueshan's place at the two-mile top table come under threat. Although producing a fine…

THE £4 million Flat season finale is finally here. Ascot hosts a star-studded six-race card on QIPCO British Champions Day, with four mouth watering Group 1s to get stuck into. The meeting was launched in 2011 and has gone from strength to strength, and this year it will be the scene for Baaeed's career swansong. The unbeaten four-year-old will be…

The Verdict: Angus McNae studies last year's Long Distance Cup Alan King may wait for the Prix Royal-Oak at ParisLongchamp should the Ascot ground not turn in favour of Trueshan. The crack stayer needs plenty of cut underfoot if he is to run in the Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup at the weekend, for which he is the general 7-4…

The parade will take place after the QIPCO British Champions Sprint Stakes (2pm) and will give fans the opportunity to show their appreciation to the eight-year-old, who will stand at the National Stud from 2023. Trained by John & Thady Gosden, Stradivarius had a remarkable career on the track that included winning the QIPCO British Champions Long…

The four-year-old, who is unbeaten in a ten-race career, will retire to stud after he contests the £1.3 million race over 1m2f, ten years after Frankel bowed out with victory in the 2012 QIPCO Champion Stakes with a record of 14 wins out of 14. After today's scratching stage for the QIPCO Champion Stakes, the Shadwell Estate Company-owned Baaeed is…

1pt win Castle Star in British Champions Sprint Stakes at 33/1 (General) With Highfield Princess all but confirmed for Keeneland and the Breeders' Cup in early-November, Ascot's QIPCO British Champions Sprint Stakes looks as open as ever and I'm certainly not bowled over by the idea of backing 6/1 market leader Alcohol Free, who has been mixing it…