#ARCADIAN HEIGHTS

Royal Ascot 2022 is here with the best fashion and sporting action. Baaeed and Nature Strip are among the stars on show on day one at the Berkshire venue The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall and Mr. Peter Phillips arriving by carriage during the Royal Procession on day one of Royal Ascot Royal Ascot week has begun with all the best sporting…

Unbeaten thoroughbred Baaeed and two of the best sprinters in the world open the show at Royal Ascot 2022. Crowds return to the huge sporting event to see Australia's Nature Strip and American hope Golden Pal race for top honours in the King's Stand Stakes. Up against the star pair is the Queen's first runner of the week, King's Lynn, who tries to…

Some of the commentaries in the early editions of Timeform's'Racehorses' annuals seem a little harsh now: 'A well-bred "thief" who will never win again' (Poseidonius, 1949); 'he is a headstrong, impetuous, hard-pulling brute, as like as not to refuse to start, or run wide on the bends, or do anything else he can think of to avoid racing' (Le…