The 2025 Royal Ascot Saturday Thread

[Ian_Davies]

In 2013 I was at Salisbury and backed a horse called Imperial Glance in the last race.

Fortuitously the horse won, not least because I though it's jockey rode the other claimers to sleep.

It was ridden by a young lad called Oisin Murphy, who I later discovered lived 15 minutes from me in Kingsclere at the time.

How time flies - he's not everybody's cup of tea off the track (never met him, got no desire to ever meet him, got literally zero opinion on him personally either way) but I thought he gave the winner a cracking ride in the Golden Gates (even though I wanted the runner up for three times more! )

 

[Ian_Davies]

Low sun at Ascot, all flights of hurdles apparently omitted, Willie Mullins wins the lucky last - what a meeting, roll on, Royal Ascot 2026!

 

[Slim]

So do people still think there is an edge betting the draw bias on the straight course?

 

[LUKE]

I'm surprised to have got 8/1 about Topgear in the Jubilee race. If I were a bookie I wouldn't be offering even money. I'm tempted to put it on the odds-on thread.

Francesca Cumani said he had plenty of filler in hishooves -that was enough to put me off.

 

[Desert Orchid]

I wasn't to know that on Thursday but my heart sank when I heard it.

 

[jinnyj]

Apparently the trainer reported it lost both front shoes too.

Any time a horse has filler, you need to be concerned as it has brittle feet and they are struggling to keep shoes on it. Plus on a firm surface this will be made worse if there are foot problems (easily bruised/corns)