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Hayley’s Lover and Murtagh’s Church look perfect pair for the Holyrood June 16, 2022 LOOK down the home straight at Ascot this afternoon and you’ll see the air wobble. By the time they line up for the King Edward VII Stakes (5:35pm), temperatures will be well into the thirties and the ground will be rattling quick. That race looks a toss-up between the top two in the betting, marginal [...]
Quick ground to crown Sandrine Coronation Dame June 16, 2022 THERE don’t look many better races this week than the Coronation Stakes (4.20pm), which sees all the best three-year-old fillies in the mile division – with the notable exception of Homeless Songs – clash. Many will be looking forward to seeing the delayed return of John & Thady Gosden’s unbeaten filly Inspiral after a setback [...]
Fresh Hope that Fellowes and Turner can win the Sandringham yet again June 16, 2022 TRAINERS are creatures of habit. They have certain races they target and Charlie Fellowes will be hoping he can continue his love affair with the Sandringham Stakes (5.00pm) this afternoon. Thanks Be gave the young handler his first Royal Ascot win in this race three years ago when ridden by Hayley Turner who was becoming [...]
Jet looks good bet to take out Commonwealth June 16, 2022 FEW PEOPLE have crabbed the decision to introduce the Commonwealth Cup (3.05pm) in 2015, and the short but select roll of honour confirms that this has already become a highly prestigious race. Muhaarar, Caravaggio and Campanelle have already won today’s Group One contest, so it usually takes a classy type to emerge victorious and the [...]
Paris Saint-Germain exec blasts LaLiga: ‘The last person we’ll take lessons from is Javier Tebas’ June 16, 2022 Paris Saint-Germain executives have issued a withering retort to LaLiga president Javier Tebas after the Spanish football chief accused the French club of breaking financial rules. LaLiga announced on Tuesday that it has lodged a formal complaint about Qatar-owned PSG’s spending with European football’s governing body Uefa. It follows PSG retaining the services of superstar [...]
Tennis can conquer sport if tours and Grand Slams unite, says Federer agent Tony Godsick June 16, 2022 Tennis could “conquer the sport world” if the ATP and WTA Tours and the four Grand Slams set aside their differences, says Roger Federer’s agent Tony Godsick. Steps to pool the commercial operations of the men’s and women’s circuits were proposed last year in a move that would see private equity take a stake in [...]
HSBC becomes Emma Raducanu’s eighth blue chip sponsor on eve of Wimbledon June 16, 2022 HSBC has become the latest blue chip brand to join British tennis star Emma Raducanu’s stable of sponsors. Raducanu, who shot to fame by winning the US Open in September, has agreed a four-year with the international banking group. “To partner with HSBC is so natural for me having grown up playing in the HSBC [...]
Adam Peaty interview: Swimming should look at example set by Boxing June 16, 2022 He is one of the most recognisable swimmers in British history but Adam Peaty insists that his sport needs to follow the example of boxing. The three-time Olympic champion, currently engaged in his own fight to be fit for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, believes swimming chiefs should do more to heighten the drama of [...]
Strad’s not lost his Mojo but Kyp can be king June 15, 2022 IS IT time for a new king to take to the throne of the stayers’ division? Thursday’s Gold Cup (4:20pm), the jewel in the crown of Royal Ascot’s five-day bonanza, looks set to be a duel between eight-year-old three-time winner, STRADIVARIUS, and improving four-year-old, KYPRIOS. The heart says Stradivarius, and the head isn’t far from leaning that [...]
You should put a few quid on Cox’s Britannia contender June 15, 2022 TODAY’S Britannia Stakes (5.00pm) is another incredibly tricky race to work out with a whole host of the 30-runner field looking like types who have bundles of improvement in them. Appealing cases can be made for several, but I was pretty keen on WHOPUTFIFTYINYOU in the days leading up to this and after Tuesday’s St James’s Palace, [...]