Queen Mary crown still Gleaming June 15, 2021 WHEN it comes to five furlongs and two-year-old fillies, you need look no further than Wesley Ward. Campanelle, Lady Aurelia, Acapulco and Jealous Again all burnt themselves into our memories with electric performances in the Queen Mary (2:30pm) over the past decade or so, and the American trainer appears to have another top class act wound up [...]
I’m Loving Double in Duke Of Cambridge June 15, 2021 IT WILL be fantastic to see one of the stars of the 2020 season, Love, back in action in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (4.20pm) on Wednesday afternoon. The daughter of Galileo rattled off the 1000 Guineas, Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks in just over two months and it was really unfortunate she wasn’t able to [...]
United Rugby Championship: Four South African teams join northern hemisphere sides in private equity shake-up of Pro14 June 15, 2021 Club rugby union is set for a private-equity-led shake-up later this year when the United Rugby Championship replaces the Pro14. Four South African teams will join the dozen Irish, Welsh, Scottish and Italian sides already part of the Pro14 to form a new 16-team tournament. The changes, which will incorporate lucrative new TV deals and [...]
EP: 65 Royal Ascot – Wednesday – Day 2 June 15, 2021 We continue our special Royal Ascot daily podcasts, previewing each of the five days racing. Trainer William Jarvis has his best chance of a royal winner for many years when Lady Bowthorpe lines up as favourite in the Duke of Cambridge Stakes on Wednesday. Double Or Bubble, trained by Chris Wall is also in the [...]
Premier League clubs slip to record £1bn loss as Covid-19 hammers income from match days and broadcasters June 15, 2021 Premier League clubs suffered a record aggregate pre-tax loss of almost £1bn in 2019-20 as a result of Covid-19’s impact on football. The combined revenues of the 20 top-flight teams fell for the first time ever to £4.5bn, a drop of 13 per cent, according to Deloitte. A delay to the completion of the season, [...]
Just stick with House and Hubert in Ascot Stakes June 14, 2021 LOOKING at the betting for the Ascot Stakes (5.00pm) and it appears to be at the mercy of the Irish with three of the first four in the market being saddled by the Mullins family. Ryan Moore has won this race three times for Willie Mullins and they team up again with favourite MC Muldoon [...]
Lope to storm the Palace June 14, 2021 IT’S FAIR to say that favourites have a pretty solid record in the Queen Anne Stakes (2.30pm), with five of the last 10 market leaders obliging and many expect Palace Pier to continue the sequence. Make no mistake, John and Thady Gosden’s colt is the most likely winner and based on his win in the Lockinge at Newbury [...]
Destiny and Arecibo monster prices against King’s Stand big guns June 14, 2021 THERE could easily be a changing of the guard when it comes to sprinting honours in the King’s Stand Stakes (3:40pm) with the flying three-year-old filly Winter Power strongly fancied to shake-up sprinting superstar Battaash. Last year’s winner has had plenty of well documented hiccups in his preparation and looked odds-against to even make the line-up a [...]
Coming home? Exclusive City A.M. poll finds half of Brits believe England can win Euro 2020 June 14, 2021 Fans are split on whether football really might be coming home after England made a winning start to Euro 2020. 51 per cent say they believe England can win the tournament but 49 per cent remain unconvinced, an exclusive poll for City A.M. by OnePulse found. And just 50 per cent say they have more [...]
Mo Farah handed last chance to qualify for Tokyo 2020 and bid for hat-trick of Olympic gold medals over 10,000m June 14, 2021 Mo Farah has been handed one last shot at qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Farah is hoping to complete a hat-trick of gold medal triumphs in the men’s 10,000m in Japan this summer. The 38-year-old missed the chance to qualify at the official Team GB trials nine days ago. Farah was eighth overall and [...]