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Yeats Repeats at Ascot

– Yeats went to post at 8-13 odds and looked every bit the well-bet favorite in today’s Ascot Gold Cup, romping home to take consecutive runnings of the 2 1/2 mile race. The win was the third of the meet for trainer Aidan O’Brien, who’s already considering bringing Yeats back for a third shot at the Gold Cup next year. “This race is the ultimate staying race and a third crack at it would be on the agenda. It would be great to be back again” (Sporting Life).
– Today was Ladies’ Day at Ascot: Topshop topped Dior in the fashion stakes (Guardian), and there are rumors of a palace leak after cream, “untouched as an 8-1 shot all week,” suddenly emerged as the prohibitive favorite for the Queen’s hat color (Times), leaving bookmaker Paddy Power with a £15,000 bill when the Queen arrived at Ascot in a cream-and-chocolate number (BBC).
Superfecta is agitating for a Ladies’ Day stateside, perhaps on Breeders’ Cup Friday. It’s a fine idea, and would be a nice way to showcase the newly added races to the BC program.


2 Comments

What’s with the literary names this year in England? Does Dylan Thomas ever get to run against Yeats? Is it one owner or one stallion or what’s the connection to literary figures all of a sudden?
Thanks for pointing out that this race is at such a distance. That’s amazing, not just another romp on the grass past the stands.
I’m all for a ladies day.

Posted by franjurga on June 22, 2007 @ 10:48 am

Wow, comments on Railbird? Did you just figure out how to do that? :-)

Posted by alan on June 22, 2007 @ 1:53 pm