Auguste Rodin headlines Aidan O’Brien’s three-strong staff for the most recent Group 1 of the season, the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes, at Ascot on Saturday.
The twin Basic winner bounced again from a sub-par begin to his four-year-old marketing campaign by galloping to glory within the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot final month.
Stablemate Hans Andersen performed a key function as pacemaker in that race and people ways may very well be repeated, whereas fellow Ballydoyle resident Luxembourg is bidding to construct on top-level success within the Coronation Cup final day out.
Godolphin’s globetrotter Insurgent’s Romance makes an attempt to deliver up a hat-trick of Group 1s – the primary of which was the Dubai Sheema Basic through which Auguste Rodin trailed residence in final place.
Bluestocking goes for a 3rd win in a row and is pitched towards the alternative intercourse after beating Emily Upjohn within the Fairly Polly Stakes final month, whereas Dubai Honour additionally heads into the race in successful kind after touchdown the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud on his most up-to-date outing.
French runner Goliath and Group 3 winner Center Earth – a possible candidate for the Melbourne Cup – renew rivalries after putting second and third respectively in final month’s Hardwicke Stakes over C&D
Irish Derby second Sunway is the only real consultant for the Basic era in Saturday’s 15:40.
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King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024 verdict
Timeform: AUGUSTE RODIN fluffed his traces badly on this 12 months in the past and his tendency to throw within the odd stinker by no means makes him one for max religion however 6 Group 1 wins present he’s high-class when within the temper and he’s the one to beat. Bluestocking is an improved filly this yr and may give Aidan O’Brien’s cost most to do. One who might determine at larger odds is Center Earth, who discovered a gradual gallop towards him within the Hardwicke and will get a stronger tempo to intention at right here.
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King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024 runners and riders
The next horses have been declared for the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes 2024.
Auguste Rodin
Coach: Aidan O’Brien Jockey: Ryan Moore Age: 4 Weight: 9st 9lbs Draw: 2
Has flopped on a number of events, together with on this race final yr, however he’s excellent on his day, successful Derby at Epsom, Irish Derby, Irish Champion and Breeders’ Cup Turf at 3. Again to his finest when successful Prince of Wales’s on the Royal assembly right here final month and he’s the one to beat once more.
*****
Dubai Honour
Coach: William Haggas Jockey: Tom Marquand Age: 6 Weight: 9st 9lbs Draw: 8
Landed a pair of Group 1 wins in Australia final spring and landed his first success on the highest degree in Europe when proving 1¾ lengths too robust for Feed The Flame in final month’s Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (1½m, good). Suspicion he’ll discover at the least the odd one too robust right here.
***
Goliath
Coach: Francis-Henri Graffard Jockey: Christophe Soumillon Age: 4 Weight: 9st 9lbs Draw: 6
Made all in a 1½m Group 3 in Might. Higher kind in defeat at Group 2 degree since (3¾ lengths second within the Hardwicke over C&D latterly) however he’ll want enchancment to play a outstanding function in Group 1 firm.
**
Hans Andersen
Coach: Aidan O’Brien Jockey: Sean Levey Age: 4 Weight: 9st 9lbs Draw: 5
Very helpful in his personal proper however presumably in right here to make sure a superb tempo for his stablemates.
*
Luxembourg
Coach: Aidan O’Brien Jockey: W. M. Lordan Age: 5 Weight: 9st 9lbs Draw: 1
Excessive-class horse who notched the fourth Group 1 success of his profession within the Coronation Cup at Epsom (1½m, gentle) on the finish of Might. Able to bettering final yr’s fourth on this however Moore sides with Auguste Rodin.
***
Center Earth
Coach: John & Thady Gosden Jockey: Oisin Murphy Age: 4 Weight: 9st 9lbs Draw: 4
Improved once more to win Newbury Group 3 (1½m, good to agency) on reappearance in Might. Discovered a gradual tempo towards him when 4½ lengths third (Goliath second) over C&D on the Royal assembly. Has a bit to seek out on kind however the doubtless stronger tempo this time ought to play to his strengths.
***
Insurgent’s Romance
Coach: Charlie Appleby Jockey: William Buick Age: 6 Weight: 9st 9lbs Draw: 3
Former Breeders’ Cup Turf winner who has proven himself higher than ever when including to his Group 1 haul abroad this spring, taking the Sheema Basic at Meydan in March and Champions Cup at Sha Tin in Might. That is his first try on the highest degree in Britain.
***
Bluestocking
Coach: Ralph Beckett Jockey: Rossa Ryan Age: 4 Weight: 9st 6lbs Draw: 9
Actually sensible at 3 and has taken it up one other notch this yr, successful Group 2 Middleton Stakes at York (1¼m, good) and Group 1 Fairly Polly on the Curragh (1¼m, good to gentle) in latest months. The cheekpieces she wore at York return. Ought to show simply as efficient again at 1½m. Daring present doubtless.
****
Sunway
Coach: David Menuisier Jockey: James Doyle Age: 3 Weight: 8st 12lbs Draw: 7
Winner of Group 1 Criterium Worldwide at Saint-Cloud on ultimate 2-y-o begin. Greatest effort this season when stepped as much as 1½m for the primary time within the Irish Derby, ending ¾-length second of 8 to Los Angeles. A fair larger efficiency can be wanted to see off his older rivals right here, although.
***
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