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South China Morning Post
04-07-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
No complaints about the Ombudsman as he headlines stellar Eclipse Stakes line-up at Sandown
There is also simulcast racing from South Africa in the form of the Group One Durban July (2,000m) Ombudsman headlines a stellar cast of world-class runners in the Group One Eclipse Stakes (1,990m) at Sandown on Saturday. The John and Thady Gosden-trained four-year-old bounced back from defeat on seasonal reappearance with a devastating performance to win the Group One Prince Of Wales's Stakes (2,000m) at Royal Ascot last month. Held up for a run for much of the straight, William Buick managed to manoeuvre around runners at the 200m pole and charge home to win going away in impressive fashion. That took his record to five wins from six starts and owners Godolphin come into the race with two chances, with Group One 2,000 Guineas (1,600m) winner Ruling Court looking to bounce back from defeat in the Group One St James's Palace Stakes (1,600m). WOW! OMBUDSMAN THROUGH TRAFFIC TO WIN THE PRINCE OF WALES'S STAKES! #ROYALASCOT — At The Races (@AtTheRaces) June 18, 2025 'The Prince Of Wales's was a very tough race with a lot of Group One horses in there. He is still relatively inexperienced and that was his first run in a Group One,' said Thady Gosden of Ombudsman on Godolphin's website. 'We always thought he had the potential to be a horse of the class he has turned out to be and we found that out at Ascot. He is a horse that has developed quite gradually and hopefully has a bright future ahead of him. 'He stays a mile and a quarter, which gives us plenty of options, and we'll have to see if he stays any further. Sandown is a stiff mile and a quarter and we'll know more after this.' Chief of the dangers is likely to be last year's Group One Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (2,400m) fourth Sosie, who is unbeaten in two Group One starts this year, most recently in the Group One Prix d'Ispahan (1,800m). Sosie picks up impressively to reel in Sardinian Warrior and take out the Group One Prix d'Ispahan at ParisLongchamp! 🇫🇷 — At The Races (@AtTheRaces) May 25, 2025 The field is completed by Classic winners Camille Pissarro and Ruling Court, Aidan O'Brien's Delacroix and juvenile top-level scorer Hotazhell. There is also simulcast action from South Africa, with the Group One Durban July (2,200m) featuring a huge field of 18 runners. The favourite is likely to be the Group One Cape Metropolitan Stakes (2,000m) winner Eight On Eighteen, but he will face stern competition from last year's hero Oriental Charm.
Irish Times
18-06-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
William Buick judges it perfectly on Ombudsman to seal Prince Of Wales's victory
Patience proved a virtue in Wednesday's Prince Of Wales's Stakes as Ombudsman graduated in style to Group One level with a resounding success for Godolphin at Royal Ascot . The most inexperienced runner in the field showed a spectacular turn of finishing speed in the final furlong of a furiously run contest to score at 7-1 under jockey William Buick. Just a year after making a belated debut, Ombudsman delivered on a big reputation by scoring in the highest class on just his sixth start. Unbeaten in four races last year, the horse trained by John and Thady Gosden met with defeat for the first time on his first start of this campaign only to bounce back with aplomb when it counted. READ MORE Buick's tactic of sitting off a frantic early pace took Ombudsman easily into the mix outside the furlong pole, only to have to check the colt twice to get a run. By then, the veteran Anmaat had gone for home. But he proved powerless to resist the winner's late thrust and came up two lengths short. From the start the 13-8 favourite Los Angeles chased his pacemaker Continuous and struck for home in the straight only for quick early fractions to eventually take their toll as Ryan Moore's mount faded to fifth. Los Angeles' trainer Aidan O'Brien had earlier won a first Queen Mary with True Love but it was old rival John Gosden who underlined how big a threat he will be this week in the race to be crowned top trainer. Gosden landed the 'gong' twice on his own (2012 and 2020) and with his son Thady in 2021. True Love ridden by Ryan Moore on their way to winning the Queen Mary Stakes on day two of Royal Ascot. Photograph: John Walton/PA Wire The Englishman reached a landmark 70 Royal Ascot winners in all with Ombudsman's success which followed up an earlier win with Crimson Advocate in the Duke Of Cambridge. He also saddled a double on Tuesday highlighted by the outstanding Field Of Gold. 'The plan was to just relax off the pace, which was strong and set up for Los Angeles, who is a real dour, long-striding staying horse, but to that extent we knew we'd be comfortable where we were. It was just the question of when you get in the straight, would you get the luck?' Gosden said. The Newmarket trainer played the straightest of straight bats to talk of a future clash between Ombudsman and Field Of Gold. But if the latter is likely to stay at a mile next time out, the Eclipse looks firmly on the agenda for Gosden's latest Group One star. 'He is a mile-and-a-quarter horse. William said he has a lot of speed. He has a wonderful turn of foot and has done nothing but grow in stature. I think we had him spot on. He is a horse who, because he hasn't over-raced this year, you could be looking at the Eclipse with,' he said. O'Brien was left scratching his head after Los Angeles' performance and said: 'We will take him back and see how he is. You wouldn't take anything away from the others, but you wouldn't think that wasn't his true running. 'The King George might come a bit quick after a run like that, Jan Brueghel might come into that job.' True Love more than lived up to expectations with a Queen Mary success that once again underlined the power of Ballydoyle's two-year-old team. 'She's a big, mature, strong filly; walking around the ring, she was like a four-year-old, and that's not making little of anything else. She is just so big, mature and scopey. She is something to look forward to,' O'Brien said. Billy Lee on board Carmers after winning the Queen's Vase for trainer Paddy Twomey at Royal Ascot. Photograph: John Walton/PA Wire Even by Gosden's stellar standards, it's proving a Royal Ascot to remember, although probably not as memorable as for Paddy Twomey. Based in Tipperary, but originally from Innishannon in Co Cork, the rapidly progressive trainer enjoyed a first success at the meeting when Carmers maintained his unbeaten record in the Queen's Vase. Having made his debut at Ballinrobe last month, and taken in a Navan Listed race en route, a potential St Leger could await Carmers in the autumn. Billy Lee, successful on Ascending on Tuesday, did the steering and kicked early in the straight. 'He is obviously going to have an entry in the St Leger; we will see. He has ran three times, won three times, and hopefully he continues doing that,' Twomey said. 'This is my first Royal Ascot winner. We did have winners at Cheltenham and Aintree last season.' Carmers was given 12-1 quotes for the world's oldest Classic at Doncaster. 'I wanted to stretch them, so I was always going to try to make it a stamina test. You can see him there pricking his ears going to the line, just doing enough. Staying was always going to be a forte of his. He is so laid back, he wouldn't pass out the dog at home!' Lee joked. The Twomey-Lee combination fancied their chances with Rogue Legend in the Windsor Castle but the grey had to settle for dead-heating in third behind Havana Hurricane. A Royal Ascot winner in 2023, it looked like Snellen was set to score again at the meeting when hitting the front in the Kensington Palace. However, Gavin Cromwell's filly couldn't repel the late challenge of Miss Information and Oisín Murphy. Another Australian-based rider was successful this week as New Zealander James McDonald guided Crimson Advocate to win with another late thrust. It was a fifth Royal Ascot victory for McDonald, whose colleague Mark Zahra landed Tuesday's Queen Anne on Docklands.
The Guardian
18-06-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Ombudsman rules for red-hot Gosden team as Royal Ascot roasts in the sun
The only British stable to wrest Royal Ascot's top trainer award away from Aidan O'Brien over the course of the last decade continued its strong run through this year's meeting here on Wednesday, as John & Thady Gosden's Ombudsman, in the Group One Prince of Wales's Stakes, followed up the success of Crimson Advocate, in the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes, for a 59-1 double on the day. The feature race, though, was not an easy watch for either the joint-trainers of Ombudsman or his backers at 7-1, at least until William Buick, his rider, finally managed to extract him and find running room with around a furlong to go, after being caught in a series of pockets. Buick was forced to switch twice in the straight, but when he did eventually take aim at the lead, Ombudsman's response was immediate and overpowering. Ombudsman was around two lengths behind Anmaat, last season's Champion Stakes winner over the same course and distance, passing the furlong pole, alongside 100m later and then two lengths ahead and going further clear at the line. 'The plan was to just relax off the pace, which was strong and set up for [O'Brien's] Los Angeles,' John Gosden said, 'but to that extent we knew we'd be comfortable where we were. It was just the question of when you get in the straight, would you get the luck? 'William wasn't in a position where he could swing around the field, it was more a case of waiting for the gap. And he was very patient, but I knew when he got a gap at the furlong pole, that this horse has an extraordinary turn of foot. He was patient and he was rewarded. 'Ombudsman is a mile-and-a-quarter horse [with] a wonderful turn of foot and has done nothing but grow in stature.' Ombudsman's win was the Gosdens' fourth of the meeting, putting them two clear of O'Brien – who saddled True Love to win the opening Queen Mary Stakes – with three days remaining. Their double, meanwhile, was worth nearly £750,000 in prize money, more than enough to see them leapfrog ahead of O'Brien to the top of the overall Flat trainers' championship. The Gosdens also have two live runners – Trawlerman and Sweet William – in Thursday's Gold Cup, where O'Brien will saddle the likely favourite, Illinois, as they go in search of a win in the feature event for the third day running. Wednesday's success sets up the intriguing possibility of a rematch between Ombudsman and Ed Walker's Almaqam, the horse that ended Ombudsman's previously unbeaten record in the Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown last month. Almaqam was steered around the Royal meeting due to a preference for some ease in the ground, but weather – and/or watering – permitting, the two colts could renew their rivalry in the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown in July, with the International Stakes at York in August and the Champion Stakes back at Ascot in October also on the agenda. The only disappointment for the Gosden stable on Wednesday's card was the failure of the King and Queen's Rainbows Edge to justify strong support as the 3-1 favourite for the Kensington Palace Stakes. She finished mid-division under Ryan Moore as Miss Information gave Oisin Murphy his first win of the week. The punters had a much better time of it in the Royal Hunt Cup, however, as Roger Varian's My Cloud, the 3-1 favourite in a 30-strong field, came home as one of the shortest-priced winners in the race's 182-year history. Like Buick in the feature, Silvestre de Sousa had to bide his time on My Cloud at the back of the stands' side group, but he made smooth progress to lead when his rider found running room to beat Bullet Point by three-quarters of a length with the 50-1 shot Bopedro, owned by Brighton & Hove Albion footballer Georginio Rutter, in third. 'I thought that was a mighty performance for an inexperienced horse,' Varian said. 'We hope he is a horse who could progress out of handicaps and into Group company.' The second day ended with three jockeys – Ryan Moore, James Doyle and Billy Lee, the winner of Wednesday's Queen's Vase on Carmers – tied on two winners for the meeting and all to play for in the race for the jockeys' prize with 21 races still to come. The recent retirement of Kyprios, who would have been attempting to win the Gold Cup for the third time in four years, has robbed this year's Royal meeting of one of its major stars, but it also creates an intriguing contest for supremacy in the division between the seven-year-old Trawlerman and two up-and-coming four-year-old stayers, Illinois and Candelari. The front-running Trawlerman forced Kyprios to dig deep for his victory 12 months ago, and ran close to that level when finishing five lengths clear of his field in the Henry II Stakes at Sandown last time out. But he is unlikely to improve significantly at seven years of age and while Illinois, who was just a neck behind the winner in last year's St Leger, has obvious scope to progress this summer, Francis-Henri Graffard's Candelari (4.20) has even fewer miles on the clock and could improve past his two market rivals on Thursday. Candelari did not see a racecourse until December 2024 and progressed rapidly through the ranks this spring to win last month's Group One Prix Vicomtesse Vigier at Longchamp by three-and-a-half lengths. He showed an impressive turn of foot to seal his victory there and that could again prove decisive when battle is joined in the home straight. Royal Ascot 2.30 By his own sky-high standards, Aidan O'Brien has as surprisingly poor record in this juvenile event with only three wins in 25 years, and his colt Whistlejacket was the beaten odds-on favourite 12 months ago. In every other respect, though, O'Brien's Charles Darwin is a standout in this year's field, with an exceptional timefigure to back up the form of his easy win at Naas last time. Ripon 2.05 Fiftyshadesaresdev 2.40 Lucky Hero 3.15 Mr Jetman 3.50 Trefor 4.30 Pendragon 5.10 Mark's Choice 5.43 Perfidia Chelmsford 2.15 Palazzo Persico 2.50 Coming Attraction 3.23 Moulin Booj 4.00 Empress Of All 4.35 Star Pupil 5.05 Dubai Beach Royal Ascot 2.30 Charles Darwin 3.05 Sing Us A Song (nb) 3.40 Catalina Delcarpio 4.20 Candelari 5.00 The Lost King 5.35 High Stock 6.10 Gleneagle Bay (nap) Wetherby 5.48 Adalida 6.20 City Of Poets 6.50 Rose Of New Jersey 7.20 Rumba Bay 7.50 Cosmos Raj 8.20 Arlington 8.50 Titainium Lingfield 5.58 Persian Phoenix 6.38 Vlad 7.10 Night Step 7.40 Royal Accord 8.10 Kessar Power 8.40 White Crown Star Royal Ascot 3.05 Ralph Beckett's Sing Us A Song showed a willing attitude to stay on well up the hill at Sandown in April and the form of his win there is working out well. He was a big-money transfer to the Wathnan Racing operation soon afterwards, is bred to improve for the step up in trip and looks big at around 8-1 to recoup at least a little of his purchase price here. Royal Ascot 3.40 Paddy's Twomey's Catalina Delcarpio should probably be unbeaten in two starts after a luckless run in a Group Three last time out, but she has shown considerable promise on both trips to the track and could well find the necessary improvement to come out on top in an open renewal of the Ribblesdale Stakes. Royal Ascot 5.00 A typically competitive renewal of the Britannia Handicap and a majority of the runners are likely to be well ahead of their current marks, but it is still seems odd that Andrew Balding's The Lost King is on offer at prices up to 50-1. He faded only late in the day on his return to action behind Fifth Column, also runner in this race, at Sandown in April, races off the same mark today and is drawn with the pacier horses towards the stands' side. Royal Ascot 5.35 This race looked like the obvious next step for High Stock when he ran the useful Mount Kilimanjaro to a neck in the Dee Stakes at Chester in May, having opened his account in the Wood Ditton at Newmarket in April, and he could well improve past John & Thady Gosden's Detain, third home in the French Derby. Royal Ascot 6.10 The Victoria Cup over course and distance in May looks like the strongest form on offer and Gleneagle Bay, just a nose and a short-head away from victory after racing away from the first two home, has a fair chance to gain some compensation at around 7-1.
The Guardian
18-06-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Royal Ascot 2025 updates: news, previews and more on day two
Update: Date: 2025-06-18T10:00:46.000Z Title: Preamble Content: Good morning from Ascot on day two of the 2025 Royal meeting on what promises to be another scorcher of a day, both on and off the track. There is only one Group One event on the card – the Prince of Wales's Stakes in the traditional primetime slot at 4.20pm (all times BST) – but it is an ultra-competitive renewal with no fewer than five of the runners priced up between 9-4 and 11-2 or shorter. A trio of Group Twos take us up to the feature, ranging from two-year-old fillies blitzing down the straight course in the Queen Mary Stakes (2.30pm) to three-year-old stayers and St Leger candidates in the Queen's Vase. And the late afternoon action includes the Royal Hunt Cup, one of the most competitive handicaps of the year, and the added bonus of a royal runner with a big chance as Rainbows Edge goes to post in the purple and scarlet silks for the Kensington Palace Stakes at 5.35pm. Five millimetres of water on both the straight and round courses overnight has maintained the going as good to firm, good in places, although it is sure to be getting faster as the day unfolds. In the jockey and trainer standings, Ryan Moore remains odds-on to be the week's leading rider at around 4-7 but James Doyle, who rode the last two winners on the opening day, is now down to 15-8 (from an opening 5-1) with William Buick, who remains winnerless, is out to around 10-1. Fallen Angel, in the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes, and Map Of Stars, in the Prince of Wales's Stakes, are Doyle's major hopes today, while all four of Moore's rides on the card – True Love (2.30pm), Shackleton (3.05pm), Los Angeles (4.20pm) and The Liffey (5pm) – are currently either favourite or second-favourite for their races. A report on yesterday's action with a quick stroll through today's card is here, more detailed previews of today's seven races are on the way, and all the latest news, betting moves, results, quotes and more will be here on the live blog throughout the day.
Yahoo
18-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Royal Ascot Odds: Latest Betting Odds for Royal Ascot 2025
Royal Ascot is underway with five days of thrilling action to come in the highlight of the British flat racing season. There are 35 races spread across five days of high-quality action at the Berkshire track, with eight Group 1 contests included in what is Britain's most lucrative meeting of the year, with over £10m in prize money up for grabs. On this page, we've pulled together the latest and best Royal Ascot odds. We use the latest Royal Ascot betting odds from the betting sites to offer readers optimum value when wagering on this famed festival. Readers will find not only the best value Royal Ascot 2025 odds but also the latest prices for each day with real-time updates in the run to and throughout the meeting. The best odds for Royal Ascot come from our recommended horse racing betting sites, all of which are licensed by the UK Gambling Commission. Bettors can find the latest Royal Ascot odds for all 35 races on this page, with the best price for each horse displayed. The odds for each race will change regularly, and those alterations made by horse racing betting sites will be reflected in our Royal Ascot odds via live updates. We take odds from all the major online bookmakers, so our up-to-the-minute Royal Ascot odds give bettors the best chance of getting maximum value from their Ascot bets. After a thrilling opening day to this year's Royal Ascot, day two promises plenty more excitement with the Prince of Wales's Stakes the feature race of the afternoon, ably supported by three Group 2 races. We are off and running at 14.30 with the Queen Mary Stakes, which has attracted a huge field of 25 runners. There's an elite field assembled for the Duke of Cambridge at 3.40 with Cinderella's Dream likely to go off as the favourite in the Royal Ascot betting odds. The Prince of Wales's brings together Los Angeles and Anmaat in a battle of the best middle-distance horses with the duo having engaged in a ding-dong battle at the Curragh recently. However, Map of Stars has seen his Royal Ascot odds shrink on the back of strong support, while See The Fire can't be discounted. When having a bet, it's vital to practice responsible gambling. When using gambling sites be aware that sports betting can be addictive. Please take steps to remain in control of your time and budget. The same applies whether you're using new betting sites, slot sites, casino sites, casino apps, betting apps, or any other gambling medium. Even the most knowledgeable punter can lose a bet, so always stick to a budget and never chase your losses. It's particularly important not to get carried away by any free bets or casino offers you might receive, both of which are available in abundance on gambling sites, but must be approached with caution. You can stay in control by making use of the responsible gambling tools offered, such as deposit limits, loss limits, self-exclusion and time-outs. You may also want to visit the following free organisations to discuss any issues with gambling you might be having: NHS Help GambleAware Gamblers Anonymous We may earn commission from some of the links in this article, but we never allow this to influence our content. This revenue helps to fund journalism across The Independent.
