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<\/p>\nFamiliar foes Calandagan and Jan Brueghel are part of a small but select field of five runners declared for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, live on Sky Sports Racing.<\/p>\n
The Aidan O’Brien-trained Jan Brueghel got the better of Francis-Henri Graffard’s French raider Calandagan by half a length in the Coronation Cup at Epsom in early June, since when the latter has secured the Group One victory he has long promised in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.<\/p>\n
A rematch is on the cards in Ascot’s midsummer highlight, with O’Brien chasing a fifth King George success and Graffard bidding for back-to-back wins following Goliath’s triumph 12 months ago.<\/p>\n
Jan Brueghel is joined by stablemate Continuous, but as expected O’Brien has not declared dual Derby winner Lambourn or top-class filly Whirl.<\/p>\n
The globetrotting Rebel’s Romance has won seven Group Ones on foreign soil and returns for a second tilt at King George glory, having finished third a year ago, off the back of his course and distance success in last month’s Hardwicke Stakes.<\/p>\n
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\n Rebel’s Romance and William Buick on their way to winning the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot<\/p>\n
The line-up is completed by the only filly in the race, Andrew Balding’s Kalpana, who also has a course and distance triumph on her CV after striking gold on Champions Day last season and returns to a mile and a half after being placed in the Tattersalls Gold Cup and the Pretty Polly Stakes in Ireland.<\/p>\n
Jessica Harrington has not declared Green Impact, who instead heads for the Sky Bet York Stakes on the same afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Familiar foes Calandagan and Jan Brueghel are part of a small but select field of five runners declared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-287650","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\/114907699442970578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287650","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=287650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}