The aftermath of the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes had almost as much drama as the race and it was certainly more extended. Lazzat, the 9-2 winner, galloped loose around the track for about a quarter of an hour and delayed the presentations after throwing his jockey, James Doyle, shortly after crossing the line.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did apologise to the king and queen when I went to collect my prize,\u201d Doyle said, \u201cand said I should have stayed in Pony Club a bit longer than I did. We had a good laugh about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
It had already been a good meeting for Doyle, with three winners for his main employer, the increasingly powerful Wathnan Racing operation, but a Group One win on a horse bought to join Wathnan less than a month ago took his week to a new level.<\/p>\n
Lazzat was quickly away and soon leading a group of 10 horses racing down the middle of the track. While the Japanese hope Satono Reve, backed down to start favourite at 2-1, fired a serious challenge at him in the final furlong under Jo\u00e3o \u201cMagic Man\u201d Moreira, Lazzat was a half-length in front at the line, with another recent Wathnan purchase, Flora Of Bermuda, another three lengths away in third.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been an amazing week and that has capped it off,\u201d Richard Brown, Wathnan\u2019s racing manager, said. \u201cWhat an amazing horse race, he\u2019s locked up with the Japanese horse and they\u2019ve gone a long way clear in a six-furlong sprint. That was an absolutely phenomenal race to watch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you saw him [Satono Reve] come in, he\u2019s a monster walking round here but that is a very, very brave performance. That\u2019s two brilliant rides from James from the front.\u201d Doyle had won the opening Chesham Stakes on Humidity.<\/p>\n
Japan\u2019s wait for a first Royal Ascot<\/a> winner goes on. Satono Reve ran a fine race to finish a half-length second, but he raced in a group of five runners near the stand rail as Lazzat led a larger group in the middle of the track. Had he enjoyed a little more of a tow into the race, it might well have been a different story.<\/p>\n Lazzat ridden by James Doyle (left) is pushed hard by Jo\u00e3o Moreira on Satono Reve. Photograph: John Walton\/PA<\/p>\n Charlie Appleby was on a miserable run of 37 losers at the Royal meeting dating back to the final day in 2022 as Rebel\u2019s Romance went to post for the Group Two Hardwicke Stakes. The most dependable and high-achieving horse in the yard delivered for his trainer when he needed it with a one-and-three-quarter-length defeat of Al Riffa.<\/p>\n William Buick sent Rebel\u2019s Romance to the front well over a furlong out and the seven-times Group One winner stayed on strongly all the way to the line. He will now attempt to win an eighth Group One, taking his prize money earnings past \u00a311m in the process, in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes over the same course and distance next month.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve got a picture of this fellow on my bedside table, he means that much to us all,\u201d Appleby said. \u201cFull credit to the horse first and foremost, and full credit to all the team. It has been a tough week and that is what you expect when you come here. It is the Olympics. You can come here thinking you are fully loaded and have great chances, and you can walk away with excuses, but that\u2019s racing.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend\u2019s action<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Quick GuideGreg Wood’s Sunday tipsShow<\/p>\n Pontefract<\/b> 2.10 Bleep Test 2.40 Roman Secret 3.10 Creatif 3.40 Meribella 4.15 Captain Potter (nap) 4.50 Partisan Hero (nb) 5.25 Adorla Of Achill<\/p>\n Hexham\u00a0 2.18 Huit Reflets 2.48 Beny Nahar Road 3.18 Man Of Action 3.50 Moonbow<\/b> 4.25 Marty McFly 5.00 Feach Amach<\/p>\n Ffos Las<\/b>\u00a02.30 Shabu Shabu 3.00 Jimmy Mark 3.30 Magnetite 4.05 Hunky Dory 4.40 King Of The Dance 5.15 Three Yorkshiremen\u00a0<\/p>\n Thank you for your feedback.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I was coming into the last day with my last roll of the dice, he was the horse that we needed. It was a fantastic ride by William, and once he kicked for home, I knew it would take a good one to get past him. We\u2019ve seen so often before that he\u2019s a battler, and if something comes to him, he finds again. As it happened, they didn\u2019t get close enough.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a great week for Godolphin [with winners for the John Gosden and Saeed bin Suroor stables] and I\u2019m just glad I\u2019ve got the monkey off my back there. It\u2019s a tough week, but it\u2019s a week you\u2019ve got to enjoy because I know how hard it is to get horses here. To win with them is just a bonus.\u201d<\/p>\n As a gelding, Rebel\u2019s Romance\u2019s racing career is relatively open-ended and after the King George, the seven-year-old is likely to be aimed towards an attempt to become the first three-time winner of the Breeders\u2019 Cup Turf.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s kept the whole yard afloat this week and you just don\u2019t come across these horses often in your career,\u201d Appleby said. \u201cHe\u2019s our stable favourite and always will be.\u201d<\/p>\n Ryan Moore, who rode Sober to victory in the concluding Queen Alexandra Stakes, finished the week as the meeting\u2019s leading jockey for the 12th time with seven winners, while John & Thady Gosden, who tied with Aidan O\u2019Brien on five winners after both drew a blank on Saturday, won the trainers\u2019 award thanks to one more runner-up.<\/p>\n The trainers\u2019 award has now been won by either the O\u2019Brien or Gosden stable at the past 11 Royal meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The aftermath of the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes had almost as much drama as the race and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-204019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114724633504827057","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}