ROYAL ASCOT ROUND-UP

We had a solid Royal Ascot this year with most of our picks giving a good account.
My nap of the the week was Sandal’s Song in the Palace of Holyroodhouse Stakes. We had a good bet at 14/1 and despite him going off 40/1 on account of his central draw he ran a screamer to finish second behind a fortunate winner who fared better on the stalls front but weighed in 5lb light and somehow kept the race!
We had a good bet on Binhareer in the Wokingham but he was never put in the race and had a troubled run, finishing just out of the frame, although our backup bet in the race, Double Rush (9/2) won, so we covered our stakes.
Other highlights for the week were Mission Central defying a drift (14/1 SP, 9/1 Adv) to win the King Charles III, Ombudsman (11/8) sluicing up in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, Ayobayyah getting up late in the Kensington Palace (10/3), and Scandinavia coming out on top in a thrilling tussle with Trawlerman in the Gold Cup.
Some of our placed horses also ran blinders in defeat - including Ruiva (20/1) who was third in the Queen Mary, More Thunder (9/2), who narrowly failed to land the Queen Anne, Gstaad (3/1) just coming up short behind Bow Echo in the St James’s Palace, then Goliath (rider lost irons) and Satono Reve (touched off in a photo) suffering narrow defeats on the Saturday in the Hardwicke and QEII Jubilee Stakes, respectively.