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Aussie Visitor Favourite For Diamond Jubilee Stakes
By the time the fifth and last day of Royal Ascot is with us Ryan Moore should have clinched the top jockey title for the fifth time in six years but Saturday’s Diamond Jubilee Stakes could still be one of the highlights of the meeting The race is a Group 1 contest over six furlongs for colts, geldings and fillies aged three and over and brings together some of the best sprinters in Britain and Ireland though Brazen Beau is the favourite having travelled from Australia.
The main race of the day is supported by the Wokingham Handicap, another contest in which the favourite is part-owned by Sir Alex Ferguson and a race which could see a horse win at Royal Ascot and the Cheltenham Festival in the same season. After day one of the meeting Moore was the leading jockey thanks to a treble. With a great book of rides during the week it would be a major surprise if the leading jockey prize has not been decided before Saturday. Moore is now seen by some as the best jockey in the world and his mounts are given the best chance of winning their races.
The trainer’s title is less clear cut but the Coolmore syndicate continue to use Aidan O’Brien to train their horses. Gleneagles is in the opinion of the trainer the best miler in the yard and maybe the best ever in his care. The horse provided Moore with one of his three winners on Tuesday. Only Richard Hannon has the numbers to get close to O’Brien in prize money won this week and he did not have a winner on day one. At the time of writing O’Brien horses are favourites for two lucrative contests on Friday which means Moore could have at least five winners at this year’s Royal Ascot.
Ascot racecourse has a triangular right-handed track that is galloping and has easy turns. The round course is about one mile six furlongs in length and there is also a straight mile for sprints and slightly longer races. This part of the track is initially downhill but rises steadily to provide a stiff test. Ground conditions determine the affects of the draw but a low draw is preferable on the round circuit. Generally horses drawn in the middle of the track are at a disadvantage.
Australian sprinters have a great recent record at Royal Ascot but one horse nearly negated all the positives. Black Caviar’s owners sportingly entered the unbeaten horse in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes in 2012. Seemingly going to win the race the horse faltered in the final furlong and was just a head in front at the line. The jockey thought the race was won so relaxed and was mortified to put the owners through such anxiety. It transpired Black Caviar was injured during the race and returned to Australia to recover never to be seen racing in Europe again.
Brazen Beau is no Black Caviar but is a worthy favourite to beat the best from Britain and Ireland and another entry from Australia called Wandjina. The horse is trained by Gai Waterhouse who acted in a British soap opera when she was visiting England before becoming a trainer. Undrafted adds to the international flavour as the horse is trained by Wesley Ward in the States for a an American Football player who was not selected in the NFL draft in 2004 hence the name of the horse. Brazen Beau is a dual Group 1 winner on Flemington’s straight course back home and the form makes him the most likely winner of the Diamond Jubilee Stakes.
The Wokingham is the most open handicap of the meeting and is often a bookies benefit. If races at Royal Ascot ever had a sponsor bookmakers would be clamouring to put their name to this six furlong contest. It was massively oversubscribed and will involve up to 30 runners racing over the straight course where luck in running can be a huge factor. Intrinsic is the tentative selection on the basis of being well handicapped, trained by sprint specialist Robert Cowell and ridden by Richard Hughes, the champion jockey riding at his last Royal Ascot before retirement.
A more famous retired person from the world of sport is Ferguson who is part of the syndicate that owns Telescope. The horse is trained by Sir Michael Stoute and pending no injury will be ridden by Moore. Telescope won the same race last year and has the form to double up in a high class contest. The starting price twelve months ago was 9/1 and on first glance subsequent runs suggest the horse is too short this year. However, in being placed in Group 1 races at Ascot and York Telescope has a rating that justifies the market confidence.
Wicklow Brave is trained by Willie Mullins who looks after Clondaw Warrior who won one of the other staying races at Royal Ascot on Tuesday. The longer races other than the Gold Cup are being dominated by National Hunt horses who are primed from hurdling for the occasion. Wicklow Brave won the County Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March and is attempting a rare double of winning races at the major Flat and jumps meeting in the same year. The horse has plenty of ability and Mullins is the past master at placing his charges. When he teams up with Moore at Royal Ascot that is a tip in itself so Wicklow Brave must be backed on Saturday, the last day of the best Flat meeting in the world.
Free Tips for Royal Ascot on Saturday:
3.40 Hardwicke Stakes: Telescope
4.20 Diamond Jubilee Stakes: Brazen Beau
5.00 Wokingham Handicap: Intrinsic
5.25 Queen Alexandra Stakes: Wicklow Brave
