{"id":196012,"date":"2025-06-19T02:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196012\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T02:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T02:46:14","slug":"king-charles-iii-is-left-disappointed-as-rainbows-edge-finishes-seventh-in-kensington-palace-stakes-a-day-after-his-horse-was-easily-beaten-on-royal-ascot-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/196012\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III is left disappointed as Rainbows Edge finishes seventh in Kensington Palace Stakes &#8211; a day after his horse was easily beaten on Royal Ascot opening day"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Rainbows Edge could only finish in seventh at the Kensington Palace Stakes\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Miss Information claimed the first place position on day two of Royal Ascot<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-3557\/adam-pogrund.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ADAM POGRUND<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?screen_name=adampogrund&amp;tw_p=followbutton\" class=\"twitter-follow-author\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  13:37 EDT, 18 June 2025   |  Updated:  19:47 EDT, 18 June 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/king-charles-iii\/index.html\" id=\"mol-6d6f67a0-4c69-11f0-8eac-61770cd75c69\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles<\/a> III was left disappointed after his horse Rainbows Edge slumped to a seventh place finish on the second day at Royal <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/royal-ascot\/index.html\" id=\"mol-6db5e680-4c69-11f0-8eac-61770cd75c69\" rel=\"noopener\">Ascot<\/a>,\u00a0as Miss Information claimed top honours in the Kensington Palace Stakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">With the well-fancied Reaching High unable to land a blow when the 11-4 favourite for Tuesday&#8217;s Ascot Stakes, attentions turned to the next runner to carry the royal silks in the penultimate race on Wednesday&#8217;s card and Rainbows Edge was the 3-1 market leader come the off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The four-year-old had won three of her four starts for the the in-form training team of John and Thady Gosden, but while she travelled strongly for the first half of this straight mile contest under William Buick, she was a spent force with two furlongs to run and faded out of contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">John Gosden said: &#8216;The ground was too quick for her, it dried out too much for her and she wants stepping up to a mile and a quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;She&#8217;s actually run well for a filly who wasn&#8217;t in love with the ground, so we will just now go a mile and a quarter with a bit of ease in the ground and hopefully win a Listed race with her.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-402cab220395d266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99502953-0-image-a-12_1750267257608.jpg\" height=\"456\" width=\"634\" alt=\"King Charles III's horse Rainbows Edge slumped to a seventh place finish on the second day\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">King Charles III&#8217;s horse Rainbows Edge slumped to a seventh place finish on the second day\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-209de5297a0313d7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99502961-0-image-a-13_1750267285747.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Miss Information claimed top honours in the Kensington Palace Stakes on Wednesday evening\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Miss Information claimed top honours in the Kensington Palace Stakes on Wednesday evening\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-2325cff92d71c4a7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99502951-0-image-a-14_1750267295272.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\" alt=\"It comes just a day after the King's horse Reaching High was well-beaten on the opening day\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">It comes just a day after the King&#8217;s horse Reaching High was well-beaten on the opening day\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">At the business end of proceedings it was Andrew Balding&#8217;s Miss Information (11-1) and the Gavin Cromwell-trained Snellen who came to the fore, with the former coming out on top by a length in the hands of Oisin Murphy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Balding said: &#8216;She&#8217;s been a star, this filly. She had no luck last time at Epsom, she got shuffled back and just didn&#8217;t seem to enjoy herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Fast ground is what she wants, she just about got the mile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It&#8217;s so nice for her owner, they really get a lot of enjoyment out of it and I&#8217;m so pleased for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;She&#8217;s in the Bunbury Cup, we will try to get some black type at some stage and she&#8217;ll make a lovely broodmare.&#8217;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It comes just a day after the King&#8217;s horse Reaching High was well-beaten on the opening day as Ascending won the Ascot Stakes by a head.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-1d297fe1592317ca\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99503169-0-image-a-16_1750267313048.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Rainbows edge was a spent force with two furlongs to run and faded out of contention\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Rainbows edge was a spent force with two furlongs to run and faded out of contention<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-5f9c0b225966b10d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/99502959-0-image-a-15_1750267306425.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"She had won three of her four starts for the the training team of John and Thady Gosden\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">She had won three of her four starts for the the training team of John and Thady Gosden<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The horse, ridden by Ryan Moore, was the hot favourite before the runners set off at the historic Flat race meeting, at 11\/4 to claim the \u00a357,000 first-place prize ahead of going to post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Trained by National Hunt superstar trainer Willie Mullins, Reaching High was bred by the late Queen Elizabeth II out of Estimate, who won the Ascot Gold Cup in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Reaching High is the first horse owned by a reigning British monarch to be schooled in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"linkButtonRowItem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/royal-ascot\/index.html?ico=article_topics_module\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Ascot<\/a><a class=\"linkButtonRowItem\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/king-charles-iii\/index.html?ico=article_topics_module\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles III<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        King Charles III is left disappointed as Rainbows Edge finishes seventh in Kensington Palace Stakes &#8211; 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