So many threads from the 2025 flat campaign will weave together at the official end of the British season at Ascot on Saturday including, unfortunately, the knotty issue of pacemakers.
For once the Champions Day billing looks justifiable with a handful of Group One races topped by a feature that really could live up to being the race of the season.
The prospect of a tripartite clash between Ireland’s Delacroix, Ombudsman from England, and the French star Calandagan in the QIPCO Champion Stakes is one to savour.
Ombudsman is officially the world’s top ranked racehorse right now. His two main rivals are rated just behind him. Another of Europe’s globally ranked luminaries, Field Of Gold, lines up in the preceding Queen Elizabeth II Stakes over a
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