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A big Saturday of action in Britain with meetings at Newmarket, Ascot, York and Chester among others and again more than one observer questioning the wisdom of slicing the pie too thin. The courses have the power in the UK as we know and none of them wants to give up a summer Saturday afternoon which guarantees a big crowd and a decent income. At Newmarket, despite another 6mm of overnight irrigation, the ground remained Good to Firm on another scorching hot and sunny afternoon. The feature Group 1, the July Cup, over 1200m, looked a race befitting the temperature. The winners of the Commonwealth Cup, King Charles III, Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee and Wokingham Handicaps from the Royal meeting all met in a race to determine, so some would argue, the second best 1200m horse in the Northern Hemisphere behind KA YING RISING. The money came, however, for the Japanese horse SATONO REVE, who had chased home KA YING RISING at Sha Tin and had only just come off second best to ALMERAQ in that wonderful finish to the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee. Commonwealth Cup winner VENETIAN SUN had drifted following reports she was coming into season and concerns about the quick ground expressed by trainer Karl Burke. Many thought a horse who had finished behind KA YING RISING would win this but not many thought it would be COMANCHE BRAVE but was this a sign of the future, a changing of the guard perhaps? This was the biggest win of Donnacha O’Brien’s training career and the biggest win for Billy Loughnane who leads Oisin Murphy narrowly in the British Jockeys Championship. The winner reversed Chairman’s Sprint form with SATONO REVE and atoned for an underwhelming run at Ascot behind ALMERAQ. COMANCHE BRAVE is clearly very good but seems perhaps best on the less demanding tracks so Haydock in September might work well. He would likely rematch with VENETIAN SUN who ran really well in second. Post race, Karl Burke bemoaned the lack of rain and when it comes I think this filly could well be something special as she showed at Haydock earlier in the year. SATONO REVE was third and for me that was sharp enough - I’d love to see him over 1300m at Deauville as he runs like a horse for whom it has to be as stiff a 1200m as possible. I’ve always liked COPPULL and he ran a blinder in fourth and confirmed earlier Ascot form with DIVISION to the ounce and both look exciting sprinting prospects. MISSION CENTRAL ran 1000m and then stopped - I think the Nunthorpe at York looks tailor made for him. Both ALMERAQ and DOUBLE RUSH were well beaten - you could argue for the latter going from an admittedly very warm handicap to Group 1 was always going to be a big ask. They ran 1 minute 9.99 seconds which was 0.79 seconds above median. I thought they went quick and finished slow and this played to the real 1200m specialists. The supporting Group 2 Superlative over 1400m for the juveniles rounded off a superb meeting for William Buick who scored his seventh winner on AL HUDAIBA who ran down ABRAHAM LINCOLN in the final stride. Both look really useful colts and I’m sure their paths will cross again later in the season. It was interesting to hear Charlie Appleby imply post race he had “two or three as good as the winner who haven’t run yet”. At Ascot, the Group 2 Summer Mile saw MORE THUNDER well supported in his attempt to build on his Queen Anne second but the pace of the race was all wrong. They went slow and he was too far back when the sprint started. He ended up fourth to ZEUS OLYMPIOS who finally broke his duck after runs in the Lockinge and Queen Anne. I suspect the two might both head for the Sussex at the end of the month where they will have to give weight to the 2000 Guineas and St James’s Palace winner BOW ECHO. York had huge fields and if you want to see a rough race, look for a replay of the John Smith’s Cup over 2050m. It’s a £200k handicap which always is fiercely competitive but the 2026 renewal was as rough a horse race as I have seen for a while. No horse fell and nobody was hurt but the stewards were busy. -
🤣🤣🤣 Oh Hoki I knew you'd be good for an outburst of deranged dribble -
Two faced fuckwit. Snivelling creep who did anything to stay relevant. Supported Israel and look where that got them….🤬
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