ROYAL ASCOT DARK HORSES
COWARDOFTHECOUNTY and ARRAN (Coventry Stakes, June 18th)
With the primary three house returned 80-1, 40-1 and 50-1 this proved a graveyard for punters, and if the race was run six occasions you’ll in all probability produce six totally different winners. Two to take out of it are COWARDOFTHECOUNTY and ARRAN, the previous as a result of he missed the break, needed to be switched and was doing all his greatest work on the end on solely a second profession begin. With Arran, he seemed to be travelling kindly on the stands facet solely to cease as if shot which tells me he has an issue. He had labored properly earlier than the race, and is one that may bounce again at a value if he goes to the Newmarket July assembly.
TWILIGHT CALLS (King Charles III Stakes, June 18th)
TWILIGHT CALLS was one other to undergo from a gradual begin, and ran significantly better than his eventual ending place of seventh signifies. Admittedly he’s not the simplest of rides, and wishes every part to go proper, however wanting forward he can show a drive in races just like the King George Stakes at Goodwood.
MISS RASCAL (Queen Mary Stakes, June nineteenth)
MISS RASCAL was the Cole steady’s greatest likelihood of a winner on the assembly however after blinking when the gates opened was all the time working on the again foot with a mountain to climb. She ran on to say fifth place overwhelmed below 4 lengths, however would have been in her aspect if capable of serve it up from the entrance, as she’d carried out on her earlier go to to this course. Subsequent port of name might be the Molecomb Stakes at Goodwood.
METAL MERCHANT (Royal Hunt Cup, June nineteenth)
A draw below double figures often spelt hassle for horses racing on the straight monitor. One instance is METAL MERCHANT, who needed to tack throughout because the teams merged, and after trying to be onerous on the metal was unable to maintain his ending run by the ultimate furlong. Had he been berthed on the stands facet he would have completed within the first 4, as his Newbury Spring Cup conqueror Sonny Liston completed an honourable second from a excessive draw. There are alternatives for this sturdy traveller, which embody the Bunbury Cup at Newmarket and the Gold Mile at Goodwood.
KING’S GAMBIT (Hampton Court docket Stakes, June twentieth)
KING’S GAMBIT will go down as one which saved the guide a large payout. Despatched off at 2-1 for this Group 3, he had nearly all the area in entrance of him turning into the brief house straight and after edging left picked up so strongly that he was simply three-quarters of a size adrift of the winner Jayarbe on the line. On this exhibiting, he can have no hassle stepping up in journey, although there are probably extra choices open to him over a mile and 1 / 4.
FRESH (Buckingham Palace Handicap, June twentieth)
By lacking the break and being hampered when attempting to get a run-through, FRESH was one that ought to have carried out higher, and stays a properly handled horse who may be positioned to win a giant pot. The apparent race for him is subsequent month’s Bunbury Cup at Newmarket.
MIDDLE EARTH (Hardwicke Stakes, June twenty second)
Yet one more to get behind early was MIDDLE EARTH, who I might fancy to provide the 2 that beat him much more to do ought to they have interaction in a rematch later in the summertime. That second may occur within the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes over this course and distance subsequent month, for which Center Earth must be taken very severely. He was by no means nearer than on the end, and is the kind John Gosden has excelled with through the years.