Ascot
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Last year’s leading rider at the meeting, Oisin Murphy, is absent and there are plenty of credible candidates to succeed him
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The French horse, ridden by Mickael Barzalona, held off the British contenders to take the showpiece as the Irishman won his third jockeys’ title
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The Irishman finished on five winners for the week as the Michael Stoute-trained Dream of Dreams won at the third time of asking
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Wonderful Tonight went to post for the Hardwicke Stakes as a proven talent in races against her own sex and returned as a legitimate contender to take on all-comers in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe
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Oisin Murphy bounced back from a demotion to win the feature race before being unseated on a wet and wild afternoon
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A misjudged strategy by the normally masterly Frankie Dettori scuppered the horse’s chances of a fourth triumph in this race
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Joe Fanning and Subjectivist secured a heartwarming win after Frankie Dettori’s misjudgement left Stradivarius with too much to do
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German 1,000 Guineas winner is well drawn and has little to find on rivals Mother Earth and Empress Josephine
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Stradivarius failed in his attempt to equal history and win his fourth Gold Cup in a row at Royal Ascot as Subjectivist got first run on the home turn and the favourite ran into trouble and finished fourth
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The second day was lit up by quality with Love putting up a superbly gritty display in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes
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A filly who came of age last year put on a rousing show for 12,000 spectators at Royal Ascot as Love shrugged off a 300-day absence to add the Prince of Wales’s Stakes to her Classic wins in 2020
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Stradivarius attempts to equal Yeats’s record by winning a fourth Gold Cup but this looks his toughest test yet
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Racegoers have returned to Royal Ascot for the first time since the pandemic began. Punters dressed in outlandish hats, summer dresses, smart suits and masks will cheer on the jockeys over the next four days at the Berkshire race course
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Royal Ascot 2022: State Of Rest wins Prince of Wales’s Stakes on day two – as it happened