From Tuesday 14 June to Saturday 18 June, the Royal Ascot Valley season is about to kick off. A total of five days of racing will take turns to present a wonderful horse racing feast for horse lovers around the world.
As of today's (June 17) press release, the Jockey Club has held the Royal Championship Horse Day, the Prince of Wales Championship Horse Day and the Yas Valley Gold Cup Horse Day.
Among them, on the first day of the Royal Championship Horse Day, Baaeed (Ying), who had just topped the world horse list in early June, easily won the "Annie Championship" (1600 meters of grass) crown without jockey Gao Juncheng whipping, further consolidating his position as the world's one-mile king. Horse No. 5 REAL WORLD (Love) finished second and ORDER OF AUSTRALIA (Love) finished third.
▲ "Katsumi" image from Alex Livesey/Getty Images
The first day of the focus race "Royal Championship" (First Division, 1000m grass) was won by the No. 12 horse and the Australian short-distance horse "Nature Strip" (Australia) to lead the five horse positions. The foal not only won three Smith medals, but also won the pinnacle championship, topped the world horse rankings several times, and still ranks second in the world list with 124 points. "Twilight Calls", "Acklam Express", and "Mooniesta" won the second, third and second places respectively.
▲"Green Belt" Image from Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images
On June 15, Beijing time, the Prince of Wales Championship Horse Day, the focus race "Prince of Wales Championship" only had 5 horses out of the race, which was surprising, but the standard of the event was very high, and the strength of the participating horses was remarkable. However, the winner of this race was finally won by the No. 4 horse "State of Rest" to lead the horse by one horse. The Bay Bridge, which has no experience in the first division, finished second, while the French horse Great Glory finished third last year.
▲ "Calm mind" Image by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images
On the Yashi Valley Gold Cup Race Day, which just finished yesterday (June 16), in the focus race "Yashi Valley Gold Cup" (3991 meters of grass), "Kyprios" defeated "Mojo Star" to win the championship, "Rapper" this year won two games in two 2800 meters race, so it became the favorite of this race, last night lived up to expectations to win the championship again, the actual deserved. Stradivarius, who won the race three times, failed to win the championship and finished third. Burning Victory finished fourth.
▲ "Rapper" image from Edward Whitaker/racingpost .com
Tonight, Yashi Valley Racecourse will host commonwealth Cup Race Day.