Royal Ascot 2020 150/1 shock as Nando Parrado is the biggest odds winner ever at meet

Ancient Rome scooped lucrative international glory when narrowly landing the Mint Millions Stakes at Kentucky Downs on Saturday, completing a remarkable international treble on the day for owners Jim and Fitri Hay. Ridden by Jamie Spencer, the Charlie Hills-trained four-year-old backed up his Chesterfield Cup success at Goodwood last month when…

The two-year-old races are always a hot topic for debate going into Royal Ascot, and perhaps even more so in the aftermath. With only one successful favourite this year and the SPs for the other five winners ranging from 5-1 to 150-1, there are plenty of talking points about the results and which runners will go on from here. Here we dissect all…

Frankie Dettori showed once again that he has a showman's timing as well as being one of the sport's greatest ever jockeys by landing a remarkable ninth Ascot Gold Cup on Courage Mon Ami. Wednesday's Queen's Vase win on Gregory had ensured the 52-year-old Italian would not go winless at his last royal meeting but to land the biggest race staged…

In winning the Group 2 Norfolk Stakes at a whopping 150-1, Valiant Force matched the biggest starting price (SP) returned at the royal meeting and the biggest-price returned in a British or Irish Group race. The 150-1 record for both was previously held by the Clive Cox-trained Nando Parrado, who won the 2020 Coventry Stakes at the same price. The…

How many Royal Ascot winners has Frankie Dettori ridden at the best flat horse racing meeting of the year? Is a question that racing fans will be asking as the popular Italian rider embarks on his final 5 days at the Royal Meeting this month. The famous Frankie Dettori'flying dismount' is soon to be a celebration of the past as the popular Italian…

The excitement for Royal Ascot is building with the big meeting just under two weeks away. Here we take a look at the best of the Irish juveniles from the Flat season and consider their credentials for the leading two-year-old races. . . T&C's apply18+begambleaware.org River Tiber holds strong claims in the Coventry Trainer: Aidan O'Brien Odds: 3-1…

We are less than a month away from the start of Royal Ascot and star performers are beginning to push their names into the limelight ahead of the five-day Flat extravaganza and one horse that has caught the eye recently is Asadna, whose blistering debut propelled him into the Coventry Stakes reckoning. However, George Boughey's rocket will have a…

If you have to tell people that you are a trial for a race, you aren't. The Commonwealth Cup Trial, formerly registered as the Pavilion Stakes, is at least closer than most to proving an exception to that rule. Plenty of good horses have passed through it and a couple of winners have placed at Royal Ascot. But only Eqtidaar, second in 2018, has…

Search for'horseracing's biggest upsets' on Google, and you will find countless articles with a strong American bias. Many top-ranked sources firmly believe that almost every major horseracing upset of the past 100 years occurred in the United States. That sentiment is some way off the mark. Horseracing does exist elsewhere, and a proper trawl…

Impressive Royal Scotsman breaks the track record in the Richmond Stakes Royal Scotsman confirmed himself a smart performer as he justified odds-on favouritism with a clear-cut success in the Richmond Stakes at Goodwood. Trained by Paul and Oliver Cole, the son of Gleneagles was heavily backed all day and eventually sent off the 5-6 favourite…

Nashwa is a warm favourite to take a second Group One contest in the Qatar Nassau Stakes at Goodwood on Thursday, with co-trainer Thady Gosden confident she will be effective on the South Downs track. The daughter of Frankel did not stay the mile and a half of the Oaks at Epsom, finishing three and a quarter lengths behind Tuesday. However, she…

Claymore, ridden by Adam Kirby, held off the challenge of Queen's horse Reach For The Moon to take the win in the Hampton Court Stakes at Royal Ascot on Thursday Frankie Dettori's luckless day continued when he suffered a shock defeat on the Queen's horse Reach For The Moon. The hotly-tipped favourite was a short price for the Hampton Court Stakes,…

The Amo Racing silks will be spotted plenty over the course of Royal Ascot - but connections feel their best chance of the week comes in Tuesday's Coventry Stakes with Persian Force. Winner of the Brocklesby Stakes by almost five lengths at Doncaster on the opening day of the season, the Richard Hannon-trained colt has only run once more…

Sawbuck won the opening contest at Punchestown Racecourse. Sent off at huge odds in the betting market, Conor O'Dwyer's runner had showed very little form previously Sawbuck became the biggest priced jumps winner in racing history with a 300-1 score at Punchestown. The huge outsider shocked the opposition in the Bar One Racing Quick Deposit &…

Ascot's straight course tends to favour sprinters who are ridden cold - it's a long way home without cover on this wide track - and a glance at the race comments for winners of the Wokingham since 2011 features'held up' on eight occasions. The two anomalies have come in the last two years as Cape Byron (2019) and Hey Jonesy (2020) were always up in…

Poetic Flare, under jockey Kevin Manning, was four and a half lengths clear of runner-up Lucky Vega, with Battleground in third. Now the 7-2 winner may head for a'Duel on the Downs' next month with Palace Pier in the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. Palace Pier, ridden by Frankie Dettori, earlier won the Queen Anne Stakes. Hollie Doyle, who last year…

PALACE PIER started Royal Ascot 2021 with a bang with a comfortable victory in the Queen Anne Stakes. The four-year-old son of Kingman - who also won the St James's Palace Stakes at the Royal meeting last season - was the leading three-year-old miler last season and he has picked up where he left off as he cruised to victory in the Group One…

Tactical wins the Windsor Castle Stakes at Royal Ascot While the July Stakes is sometimes regarded as the first test of the Royal Ascot juvenile form, the average RPR recorded by the winner is about 1lb lower than in the Coventry. Even though just three weeks tends to separate the races, these are ever-developing two-year-olds and that is…

Nando Parrado sprang a 150-1 shock in the Coventry Stakes. Beaten into fifth on his racecourse debut at Newmarket earlier this month, Clive Cox's charge showed plenty of improvement to bag this six-furlong contest. Partnered by Adam Kirby, Nando Parrado was in front with a couple of furlongs to run always looked like holding the late thrust of…

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…

Friday at Royal Ascot and Roger Varian saddles Pierre Lapin in the Commonwealth Cup (3.35pm), after a 320/1 treble on Thursday. Follow for updates from day four Welcome to our coverage of day four at Royal Ascot. Stradivarius was a stunning winner of the Ascot Gold Cup on Thursday, becoming only the third horse to bag the big race hat-trick. Fresh…

3.00) at Royal Ascot on Saturday, as he bids to bounce back from his disappointing third in the 2000 Guineas. The Charlie Appleby-trained son of Shamardal was defeated for the first time in the Newmarket Classic and will once again take on Wichita, who finished second. Appleby said: "Naturally, you are always disappointed when you lose that…

Circus Maximus (10-1) held on to cause a bit of an upset in the St James's Palace Stakes on the opening day of Royal Ascot 2019. Aidan O'Brien's son of Galileo was behind 2-1 favourite Too Darn Hot and Irish 2000 Guineas hero Phoenix Of Spain (5-2) among others in the betting as he dropped back to a mile having contested the Investec Derby last…

ASCOT, BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND - Day Three of Royal Ascot will be one to remember as we saw a thrilling Group 1 Gold Cup and another Breeders' Cup Challenge Series race at Royal Ascot. See the full day's recap below: British racing's finest American import, Wesley Ward, had not enjoyed the best Royal Ascot until Shang Shang Shang landed the Group 2…

The colt he had behind him in the 2000 Guineas has since won the Derby and now opportunity knocks for Tip Two Win, the Newmarket runner-up who bids to land a David v Goliath-style knockout blow in the St James's Palace Stakes. Jockey David Probert has never won a Group 1, but in the shape of Tip Two Win he has a live prospect to right that wrong at…