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Ascot and it's started to rain. There's a very chilly wind, but the | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
wind was very much in the tail and behind Princess Highway who came | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
home in front of the Ribblesdale Stakes ahead of The Fugue and | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
Shirocco Star, Momentary for the Queen was disappointing towards the | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
back of the field. Vow similarly disappointing but Princess Highway | :01:16. | :01:23. | |
will now go for if Irish Oaks as will the third horse home, Shirocco | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
Star. The jockey said if the ground would have been better he would | :01:27. | :01:37. | |
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have had a better chance with but it's a big thing to come here | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
and win the Ribblesdale. A very prestigious Group 2 race, she'll | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
step up to Group 1 class and looks well capable of it. At the moment, | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
you would have to say she's the best mile and a half three-year-old | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
filly about after that performance. I would imagine her being by Street | :02:08. | :02:18. | |
Cry, when the ground gets quicker, she'll even get that bit better. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
really isn't terribly nice here right now. So let's have a look at | :02:22. | :02:32. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 73 seconds | :02:32. | :03:45. | |
some pictures of when it was a bit Glory being saddled up there. Aidan | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
making the final adjustments to the gert. We'll see Fame And Glory in | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
all his glory in the paddock after paying a visit to Suzie Perry. -- | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
Guru-Murthy. 16 years and 30 years at the racecourse, time for other | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
things. What made you want to be a groundsman? I fell into it | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
accidentally. Came out the Army, had a few little jobs and sort of, | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
my wife's uncle was a manager of Sandown Park at the time, I was | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
looking for work and it just went in that way. Did you have horses | :04:25. | :04:32. | |
that were racing? Not at the time, no. After you've been around it for | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
years, you fall in love with the game really, you meet very | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
interesting people. Like? The Queen, for instance. You've met the Queen? | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
I've met the Queen. The Queen mum. You know. When I came here, the | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
Queen mum said to me, I'm glad you're here, you've come to join | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
the family, so that was quite nice. The downside is the winter time | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
when it's cold and miserable, frosty and foggy and you like to | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
stay in bed sometimes. So you are retiring at the end of June which | :05:05. | :05:12. | |
is very soon? Indeed, yes. Is this a joyous moment or will it be | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
tinged with sadness to leave behind what's been an incredible career. | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
won't be sad, but there are things I will miss in it obviously like | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
Royal, champions day and things like that. Quite looking forward to | :05:25. | :05:30. | |
it. The next stage of my life, play golf, spend time with my wife. | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
Sounds good. Yes, we do spend time together but she was working all | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
the time, so there's not enough hours in the day to enjoy life so | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
we are going to enjoy life for a few years. You could be dead | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
tomorrow! Thanks for that! I look forward to that! | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
Cheery thought from Gilly who retires from Ascot after being here | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
for 16 years. The ground here is superb and with the rebuilding of | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
the racecourse, so much has changed. There were worries about the new | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
course when it was laid but it's fantastic. It's been re-aligned, | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
the whole racecourse and, of course, they put in a lot of gravel | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
underneath that. Is why the straight course is always a little | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
bit faster than the round course because it's got a lot of drainage | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
now. Every in67 of the course will be covered by the runners in the | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Gold Cup. Let's check the field with Jim. | :06:30. | :06:40. | |
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Here they are, the runners and fascinating Gold Cup. The umbrellas | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
are up everywhere. It's raining heavily now. The favourite is Fame | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
And Glory. He's opened up as a strong favourite. This weather at | :07:22. | :07:30. | |
the moment who, will it suit and who won't it suit? A few technical | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
problems here because of the weather. We'll get you the betting | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
details in a moment. In this, we have a representative from the John | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Ox Yard and what a trainer he's been? Yes, this rain won't help him | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
because they wanted the firm ground for Saddler's Rock. I would think | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
that this rain we are having is just going to scupper their chances | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
of winning the race. But of course, he'll have to take his chance and | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
they'll still be hopeful. The best horse that John has trained in his | :08:01. | :08:11. | |
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life was Sea The Stars who won a four-timer. Johnny Murtagh's ridden | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
the Gold Cup five times. Mick Fitzgerald's been over to Ireland | :08:20. | :08:30. | |
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to find out more about the horse. Recent success still echoes around | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
this yard. Sea The Stars is going to win the | :08:35. | :08:42. | |
Guineas and Derby double... Ridden by the strength of trainer | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
John Ox. Sea The Stars, a horse of a lifetime. She's going to go on | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
and win the Arc. Can this fella deliver yet more Group 1 glory? Can | :08:54. | :09:03. | |
you? Another win for Ireland and John Ox. Here he is. His tongue | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
hanging out. Always very relaxed. Quiet horse. This fellow is good | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
when he goes the distance. He just lobs along. A lovely mover, a good | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
ride. Easy to ride and it looks like it's going to be quite a | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
competitive race this year but I think he's there or thereabouts. | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
It's a tried and tested Gold Cup forminging. John and Johnny won | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
with Enzeli 13 years ago. This time, Murtagh is all too familiar with | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
the favourite and defending champion, Fame And Glory. | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
Fame And Glory is a very good horse, been running behind Sea The Stars | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
all his career and I always thought he'd step up to the cup distances. | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
Saddler's Rock would love good-to- firm, a bit of ease will help Fame | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
And Glory which could swing it his way. Johnny Murtagh, done both | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
circles, started with you, left, came back, went to Ballydoyle and | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
is now back with you? He got spoilt in Ballydoyle winning 39 Group 1 | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
races in two-and-a-half years or whatever it was. Unbelievable. But | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
he always goes out thinking he's going to win, you know. He's always | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
been that way? Yes. I've known him for a long time and you knew when | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
he was here that he was always like that? He was. He's full of optimism | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
which is important in a jockey. He's very honest. His word is his | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
bond and that's his big thing, you know. He's just a true gentleman. | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
We are in a very privileged position? Yes, here they are now | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
actually coming over the hill. He's quickening away smart. His | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
companions have had enough but he's doing all right. The ground is | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
testing enough. It's a bit softer than he likes but he needs to work. | :11:07. | :11:15. | |
You are happy? Yes. He's like Hannibal out the A-Team and I'm | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
like Murdoch. I know by the way he looks at me whether he's happy or | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
not. We are a good team together and it would be great. There's a | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
lot of staff here who've been here since I've been here and, as a team, | :11:28. | :11:37. | |
you know, it's more like a family than a work place. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
The wink from Saddler's Rock. I'm afraid the vain falling heavily now, | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
and with every drop, his chance lessens because he sticks his | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
tongue out at it. He doesn't like it much I'm afraid when it's | :11:50. | :11:56. | |
raining which is a great shame. Johnny Murtagh will give him all | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
the assistance from that saddle. He's ridden 38 Royal Ascot winners. | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Given that everybody's sitting there just on one winner so far, | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
the race to be leading jockey this week is still wide-open. Johnny | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
could yet do it and how much it would mean to him to twin Gold Cup | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
for the sixth time. Saddler's Rock getting geeed up, has his tongue | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
right over the bit. Horses don't know what umbrellas are and | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
everyone has one now. See how high that one is there, that would be | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
why that horse was ducking away from hit. Yes, I think you are | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
right. They haven't seen him before. There is an honour's board with all | :12:35. | :12:44. | |
the winners on it and obviously the name that stands out most of it is | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
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Yeatse. - tsh Yeates. The favourite paddock and parading here. Here is | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
number one, Askar Tau. He's got the head gear on. It will be a shock if | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
he won today. He's got a lot of ability but probably not up to the | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
class of the top horses in this race, the likes of Fame And Glory. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
Bridge of Gold, similar comments apply to him. Will find it | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
difficult. Beautifully turned out, his mane plated. Caucus, again an | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
outsider. Here comes the reigning champ, Fame And Glory, Pat Keating, | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
travelling head lad from the Irish stable. He has the rug on at the | :13:48. | :13:55. | |
moment. Hopefully get a look at him when the rug is off. Opinion Poll | :13:55. | :14:04. | |
from Godolphin. He'll be ridden by Barzalona. Opinion Poll, that's | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
being ridden by Frankie Dettori now. Colour Vision won at Kempton last | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
time out. They have the rugs on at the moment and Colour Vision used | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
to be trained by Mark Johnston, the horse behind Colour Vision is Gulf | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
of Naples, also trained by Mark Johnson, so it's all linking | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
together very nicely. Horse nine, the last one to look at is | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
Saddler's Rock. You saw the feature on him, Mick Fitzgerald going to | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
Ireland to see Saddler's Rock and John Oxx. The rain that's fallen | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
here today is definitely not in his favour. He has a lot of class | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
though. To be honest, it's almost a comical | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
sight here because everybody's huddled together under the | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
umbrellas trying to share them. Partners in Fame And Glory. I want | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
to have a chat with you, is that all right? Yes. How are things with | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
the horse, things all right? Aidan seems to think he's great, better | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
than last year. If better than last year, he'll win it easily. That's | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
what we hope. The rain won't affect him? No, Jamie said the ground was | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
OK from the last race, so that's not too much of a concern. | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
Fantastic. Jamie's just come into the middle of the huddle. The sun's | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
trying to come out. I think we'll get a rainbow any minute now. The | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
sun is coming out. The other big huddle is for Sheikh Mohammed's | :15:35. | :15:42. | |
gang. Two runners from Godolphin, Saeed bin Suroor and Frankie | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Dettori. They've got Colour Vision. Princess Highway you can see in | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
pink and tangerine. Beautiful outfit today with Sheikh Mohammed | :15:48. | :15:54. | |
and he'd dearly love to win the Gold Cup again. Barzalona to our | :15:54. | :16:02. | |
right. He Juan so well in this race last year. Yesterday I talked to | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Princess Highway. So I wonder if I might be able to talk to Sheikh | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
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Mohammed. Would it be all right to the horse was second in the race | :16:22. | :16:29. | |
and he won the other day and both of them have a chance. Obviously | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
the favourite has a chance also. He's the one to beat. Can I ask you | :16:34. | :16:41. | |
what you felt about Frankel's performance? That was great. He's a | :16:41. | :16:47. | |
very good horse. You will interest to try and tempt them to come to | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
the Dubai World Cup. And your wife had a lovely winner yesterday. | :16:52. | :17:01. | |
She's relaxed now! Exactly! Now we need a winner for you, Sir. Sheik | :17:01. | :17:11. | |
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Mohammed with two runners in this your new restaurant? Advertising | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
myself. My new restaurant in Chelsea. Are you going to win this? | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
I will do my best. If you win, I get a free meal! | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
I'm on the right one. He switched from Opinion Poll to Colour Vision. | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
Is he on the right one? I don't know with this ground. I would | :17:34. | :17:38. | |
think possibly he's not now because of this rain. I would have thought | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
he was, until the rain came, then I would think possibly not. Opinion | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
Poll has won on quicker ground this year. He is about to get on Colour | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Vision now. What about his chances? He was impressive on the all- | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
weather laths time. It was impressive to the eye that day. He | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
looked a really good horse. He had been beaten at Doncaster before | :18:03. | :18:12. | |
that. Number nine, Saddler's Rock. He's the last crop of Saddler's | :18:12. | :18:22. | |
Wells. He looks like Istabrak. You rode | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
him? That horse is smaller. He's got bandages on. You are so edgy, | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
ever since Shirocco Star at Epsom. Well, you got it wrong, didn't you. | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
OK, who's going to win the Gold Cup? Who's got it wrong - oh, Fame | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
And Glory. Go on, you say it to the people. I like Fame And Glory. To | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
me, today, it looks like a penalty kick for him today because of the | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
weather. It has come and helped him. Although they don't want it too | :18:55. | :19:04. | |
soft themselves. It is more of a hindrance. | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
Best outsider, in a word or two? Would you call Saddler's Rock an | :19:11. | :19:19. | |
outsideer?. Fame And Glory, we are both agreed will win the Gold Cup. | :19:19. | :19:29. | |
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is very lightly raced, considering he is getting on a bit now, at six | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
years old. Trained by Magnusson and riden by | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Moore. Caucus, William Buick is on board. | :19:46. | :19:54. | |
The pink colours. They've had good stayers, including Duncan who won | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
the St Leger. This is Fame And Glory. He's 5-4 on favourite. Was | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
top class over a mile-and-a-half. Was second in the Derby to Sea The | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
Stars. He is now the supreme stayer. He sets the standard. Everybody | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
else trying to catch him, including Opinion Poll, who is consistent and | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
he's classy as well. Barzalona takes the race on him. That means | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
that Frankie Dettori is on board. He was very impressive last time. | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
He could be the one that's improving and they don't know how | :20:32. | :20:41. | |
good he'll be. Gulf Of Naples, represents John John. Then back to | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
Saddler's Rock and Johnny Murtagh. We know all about this horse, | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
having shown you the feature from John Oxx's yard. The rain possibly | :20:50. | :21:00. | |
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line. It's all about this race - the stamina. The Gold Cup, it tests | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
a horse's balance, more than anything tests its ability to keep | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
gallops. Nehaam is the one we had not seen. | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
Trained by John Gosden. Here we go. This is the big one. | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
This is the reason that everybody is here today, at Royal Ascot, on | :21:34. | :21:44. | |
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racing. For over 200 years, we have gathered for this distinguished | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
race. Off and running in the Gold Cup. | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
What brings us here? The prestige. The horse racing. The fashion. | :22:00. | :22:08. | |
The winning. Stilettos in muddy earth. | :22:08. | :22:17. | |
The sound of hoofs past the post. He wins his fourth Ascot Gold Cup. | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
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It's Ladies' Day, when women, like sunny as those. The umbrellas are | :22:39. | :22:46. | |
up. The rain is easing off. It is a colder day down there. Everybody is | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
jostling trying to get to the front of the queue. Most of that money is | :22:50. | :22:58. | |
going on Fame And Glory. It certainly is. There has been | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
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bidding to win Group 1 races at two, three, four and six. Isn't that a | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
hallmark of consistentsy in a racehorse. Very few can do that | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
was a horse, as a three-year-old, he ran in all the top races. Of | :23:31. | :23:38. | |
course, he's an animal which makes him a stayer. That is why he's | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
running in all these long-distance races. The stable who had Yeats, | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
he's taken the shoes of Yeats, winning last year and he's hot | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
favourite to win again. Who's to know - next year he might be | :23:56. | :24:06. | |
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favourite to win this race again. Jamie Spencer looking nice and | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
relaxed. Johnny Murtagh has arrived at the start with Saddler's Rock, | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
who was a pretty progressive horse last season and has beaten Opinion | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
Poll in the Doncaster cup. As a three-year-old, which is a | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
performance you would think is good for a three-year-old to do that. He | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
was getting a lot of weight, but it is weight for age. For a horse to | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
be mature enough to take on all those stayers, it takes a lot of | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
doing. He's had the extra year now to develop, strengthen and to just | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
get that little bit stronger mentally and physically. | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
I was talking about Johnny Murtagh having won five times, Piggot won | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
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it 11 times. Barzalona looking for Colour Vision, originally we | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
thought Opinion Poll would be the one he'd be on. The ground change | :25:25. | :25:33. | |
could possibly change his mind. The horses lining up very rapidly. Fame | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
And Glory one of the last to go in. Let's join Jim for the Gold Cup. | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
The last three going forward now for this press tedgeous race with a | :25:44. | :25:53. | |
total of �350,000 -- prestigious. Not the richest of the week in | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
terms of prize money, but the one with the most history. Fame And | :25:57. | :26:03. | |
Glory going forward now. Frankie is in n the stalls. Has he chosen the | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
right one? Switched from Opinion Poll to Colour Vision. Last one | :26:06. | :26:12. | |
going forward now. Set for the Gold Cup. Ready. Racing in the Gold Cup | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
of 2012 and on the inside, Opinion Poll is one of the first away. Out | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
there too in the early stages, Fame And Glory. A bit wider out is | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
Colour Vision and Gulf of Naples is widest of all. The two greys on the | :26:27. | :26:35. | |
outside of the field. Behind them is Saddler's Rock. Further back in | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
the field is Nehaam. Followed by Caucus giving them a fair start | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
with Bridge Of Gold. At the tail is Askar Tau. They've gone through the | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
first furlong and a half. To the front is Gulf of Naples. They're | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
dawdling in these testing conditions today. At least by two- | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
and-a-half lengths or so. Colour Vision in second, a similar | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
distance away in third is Saddler's Rock. Half a length away, Nehaam. | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
Settling in fifth position on the inner is Fame And Glory, last | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
year's winner. Then is Opinion Poll. Followed by Bridge Of Gold, tucked | :27:14. | :27:19. | |
away behind them. Caucus on the outside of runners. Going very, | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
very slow here as they have two miles left to travel. Dawdling | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
along in front is Gulf of Naples. Leads by a length and a half to in | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
second Colour Vision on the inside of Nehaam. In fourth position is | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
Saddler's Rock who won't settle. Pulling for his head there on the | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
inside of Caucus in the pink jacket. A length and a half in advance of | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
Opinion Poll, followed by Fame And Glory. Two lengths further back, | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
Askar Tau. At the tail of the field is Bridge Of Gold. Ten lengths | :27:48. | :27:52. | |
covers the field. They have a circuit remaining and the leader is | :27:52. | :27:57. | |
Gulf of Naples. He's been out there for a fair way now, leads by two | :27:58. | :28:07. | |
lengths. Nehaam half a length away. Colour Vision. Caucus in the pink | :28:07. | :28:13. | |
jacket has moved up on the outside of Saddler's Rock. A length in | :28:13. | :28:16. | |
advance of Opinion Poll with the white cap, then Fame And Glory on | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
the inside. Just inclined to take a tug in the first half mile of the | :28:21. | :28:26. | |
race. They're two lengths to Askar Tau. Tout back is Bridge Of Gold. | :28:26. | :28:32. | |
They leave the mile and a half behind them in the Gold Cup. The | :28:32. | :28:39. | |
leader here is Gulf of Naples. Nehaam. On the inner is Colour | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
Vision. Half a length further back is Saddler's Rock. A length to | :28:44. | :28:49. | |
Opinion Poll the outside. Fame And Glory still third last. From Askar | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
Tau and Bridge Of Gold. All the time they are running downhill as | :28:52. | :28:57. | |
they leave the mile behind them and get to Swindley Bottom. Gulf of | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
Naples still the leader out in front. Nehaam. Third is Colour | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
Vision. Fourth is Caucus with the pink cap. Saddler's Rock is | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
striding out better now. He's appreciating the increase in tempo, | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
followed then by Opinion Poll. Glory gloir glory is back in the | :29:14. | :29:22. | |
field. -- Fame And Glory. Askar Tau. The rank outsider then, Bridge Of | :29:22. | :29:30. | |
Gold. They follow this stiff uphill climb. It's Gulf of Naples. Just | :29:31. | :29:36. | |
the leader from Nehaam. Paul Hanagan the champion jockey on the | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
outer. Frankie Dettori on Colour Vision. Followed by Saddler's Rock | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
on the inside. Further back in the field, Caucus. Followed then by | :29:44. | :29:50. | |
Fame And Glory with about eight lengths to make up. Starting to | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
improve slightly from Opinion Poll and Bridge Of Gold, Askar Tau. | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
Coming up towards the half mile marker now in the Gold Cup. On the | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
inside, it's Gulf of Naples being tackled in earnest by Nehaam. | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
Colour Vision followed by Saddler's Rock and Caucus. Fame And Glory. | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
Still six lengths off the pace, followed by Opinion Poll. Bridge Of | :30:10. | :30:15. | |
Gold. Out the back is Askar Tau. On the turn for the home Gold Cup now. | :30:16. | :30:20. | |
Gulf of Naples on the inside tackled by Nehaam. Colour Vision | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
getting into the clear. Two or three lengths away. Fame And Glory | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
now taking to the outside, starting to run on well. Two furlongs left | :30:27. | :30:33. | |
to go. On the far side, it's Gulf of Naples. Nehaam in the centre. | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
Colour Vision coming for glory. Two lengths to Opinion Poll running on | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
well. Saddler's Rock. Fame And Glory is running behind. A half | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
furlong left in the Gold Cup and it's Opinion Poll now pouncing with | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
Colour Vision, but they're fighting it out. On the inside, Colour | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
Vision is doing his best and Colour Vision's got up to win for | :30:56. | :31:06. | |
:31:06. | :31:20. | ||
Frankie Dettori, the Ascot specialist, has won the Gold Cup! | :31:20. | :31:30. | |
:31:30. | :31:35. | ||
What a boost for him! Very, very tight for second is. Frankie | :31:35. | :31:44. | |
Dettori, who's been fighting so hard to consolidate his position as | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
number one at Godolphin's ridden an inspired race to win the Gold Cup | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
on Colour Vision. Owned by Godolphin, train bid Saeed bin | :31:54. | :32:01. | |
Suroor, this gelding. There's Saeed. The gelding by rainbow quest. What | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
a performance! Very, very tight for second and we are waiting for the | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
judges' verdict here. Let's have a look ourselves. | :32:09. | :32:16. | |
Very, very tight here. In the centre, opinion poll's just got | :32:16. | :32:26. | |
second on the evidence of that. In fifth is Askar Tau who came from | :32:26. | :32:32. | |
last for George Baker. Then Nehaam. Fame And Glory had too much ground | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
to make up. He was never really that pap hi, I wouldn't have | :32:36. | :32:40. | |
thought, Jamie Spencer. There's the klaxon call. The stewards are | :32:40. | :32:46. | |
looking at something. There's a steward's inquiry. Caucus is behind | :32:46. | :32:56. | |
:32:56. | :33:02. | ||
them. Now, officially second Opinion Poll. The time 4.42.05 but | :33:02. | :33:09. | |
Frankie Dettori, the man who in 1996 went through the card at Ascot | :33:09. | :33:14. | |
riding seven out of seven winners, a track that he's always loved. | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
Let's see if we can spot the interference here. Colour Vision | :33:18. | :33:27. | |
now starting to come out there. Just giving Opinion Poll two bumps | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
there. Just how crucial was that? Has that affected the result? | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
That's what you are saying to yourself and the winning distance | :33:34. | :33:41. | |
is a half length. Two bumps there. The stewards will be looking at | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
this and will be going into the room and hearing what they say as | :33:46. | :33:56. | |
well. Saeed bin Suroor coming back to lead him back. Really good | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
performance. Health and Safety gone out in front of the crowd, Frankie | :34:01. | :34:11. | |
Dettori, with Colour Vision. Let's have another look at the bunking. | :34:11. | :34:18. | |
Frankie is coming out there. And twice you can see there. And just | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
knocked Opinion Poll off balance, no doubt about that. The first bump | :34:23. | :34:30. | |
certainly did knock him off balance. Let's have another look. Dettori | :34:30. | :34:36. | |
has the whip in the correct hand. Look what happens. All of a sudden, | :34:36. | :34:41. | |
Colour Vision veers over left and knocks into Opinion Poll and does | :34:41. | :34:51. | |
:34:51. | :34:53. | ||
it again. So there's two very, very conspicuous bumps there. And it's | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
the -- the thing in Dettori's favour though is that the distance | :34:56. | :35:00. | |
is a half length. If it would have been a nose or a short head, it | :35:00. | :35:10. | |
might be very, very, very awkward all round. | :35:10. | :35:15. | |
Whatever happens, Sheikh Mohammed's won the Gold Cup and I suspect that | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
Frankie Dettori will keep this race because he's not guilty of | :35:19. | :35:23. | |
dangerous riding, he's not guilty of improper riding, he may be | :35:23. | :35:28. | |
guilty of careless riding in which case the steward also say did he | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
take reasonable steps to avoid interference. Willie, we see | :35:33. | :35:36. | |
interference every day of the week. How bad do you think that was and | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
will it affect the result? It's not that bad really. Take the ground | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
conditions, you take the length of the race, the horses are getting | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
very tired. Frankie did have his stick in the left hand. He used the | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
stick in the left. He put it down, pulled it through, used it, stick | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
in the right hand twice, maybe he hit the horse once too many times | :35:59. | :36:03. | |
with the right hand before the stick went down and stopped riding | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
with his stick. Luckily for Frankie, I would say, is that he has won by | :36:08. | :36:14. | |
half a length. If he'd won by a head or a short head, there are | :36:14. | :36:24. | |
:36:24. | :36:26. | ||
grounds for places to be switched. May it please your Majesty, Royal | :36:26. | :36:32. | |
Highnesses, Lords, ladies and gentlemen. The fanfare announces | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
the arrival of the horse first- past-the-post in this year's Gold | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
Cup. He is Colour Vision, trained by Saeed bin Suroor, owned by | :36:40. | :36:46. | |
Godolphin and ridden by the most successful jockey in the history of | :36:46. | :36:56. | |
:36:56. | :36:57. | ||
Royal Ascot, Frankie Dettori! He is indeed. Embracing Sheikh | :36:57. | :37:04. | |
Mohammed, his employer. Sheikh Mohammed has both the first and | :37:04. | :37:11. | |
second but with different stables. The winner is trained by Saeed bin | :37:11. | :37:18. | |
Suroor. The second trained by Zarooni. They're both Godolphin but, | :37:18. | :37:27. | |
as you can imagine, quite a lot of rivalry generated by that situation. | :37:27. | :37:33. | |
And this is something that will have them on a knife edge. That's | :37:33. | :37:41. | |
for sure. Frankie Dettori, very important to him. This is the time | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
again. 4.42.05. But very important to him that he can hold on to this | :37:46. | :37:53. | |
race. When it's a half length, the balance is tipped in your favour, | :37:53. | :38:00. | |
no doubt about that. That's the situation here. A nervous few | :38:00. | :38:04. | |
moments for Frankie Dettori here, but you can see the celebration and | :38:04. | :38:10. | |
the relief on his face when he past the line first. Having made the | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
decision to switch from Opinion Poll and Colour Vision, nothing | :38:13. | :38:17. | |
would have been more galing than to see his stable mate come by him and | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
snatch the Gold Cup. But for Frankie, he did, in terms of timing | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
on this horse, and bear in mind this was one of three four-year- | :38:24. | :38:30. | |
olds in a race, so a younger horse open to more, this horse had the | :38:30. | :38:35. | |
potential to improve. A worbld on Fame And Glory, desperately | :38:35. | :38:37. | |
disappointing there, something must have gone wrong. The slow early | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
pace didn't help, but when Jamie Spencer got him clear, he never | :38:41. | :38:46. | |
picked up, and you would think he may be injured? At a furlong and a | :38:46. | :38:51. | |
half, his action wasn't very good. I don't think it really will have | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
been the ground that would have been the reason why he shortened | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
his stride, but he didn't look very happy in the last furlong. Seeing | :38:59. | :39:06. | |
here the celebration shots of those involved with Colour Vision and | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
Saeed bin Suroor equally under pressure. The Godolphin camp work | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
like this, like a football team on rowcation. There's always pressure | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
and even if you have been the number one guy, you are still | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
having to prove yourself to the boss, who is with Rishi now. | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
Congratulations Sir, you have won the Gold Cup whatever happens now. | :39:24. | :39:27. | |
Have you had a word with your jockeys and do you have any idea | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
what happened in the closing stages? Whatever happened, I think | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
to bring horses and to finish first and second is a great thing. The | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
Gold Cup, you have to wait the whole year to prepare a horse and | :39:41. | :39:45. | |
to come here and even the second one ran very, very well also. | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
It's a race you have done particularly well and Godolphin | :39:48. | :39:54. | |
have done particularly well in over the years. What emotions were you | :39:54. | :40:00. | |
going through at the final stages when Opinion Poll and Colour Vision | :40:00. | :40:04. | |
battled it out, Gulf of Naples as well? Well, yes, just finishing | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
together, you know, your blood boils. And the joy in watching | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
obviously the established Frankie Dettori and the young Mickael | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
Barzalona going at it in the closing stages? Yes, two great | :40:17. | :40:21. | |
jockeys. I mean Frankie's great and this year, the young man's coming | :40:21. | :40:28. | |
up also. Two improving horses. Thank you for talking to us. Thank | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
you. Just looking at Godolphin's success | :40:32. | :40:39. | |
in this race. They have lots of former winners of the Gold Cup. And | :40:39. | :40:45. | |
in terms of those horses, Mick Kinane rode two of them. Frankie | :40:45. | :40:50. | |
was on board one of the winners. Looking at the closing stages, you | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
will see Frankie had his whip in his right hand. As he smacks Colour | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
Vision, the horse veers to the right, bumps into Opinion Poll | :40:57. | :41:02. | |
who's then come plaitly thrown off his balance and almost goes | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
sideways. Mickael Barzalona is struggling to have the room to use | :41:05. | :41:12. | |
his own whip. So did Frankie Dettori do enough to keep his horse | :41:12. | :41:19. | |
straight? Mickael Barzalona is going to be assisted in terms of | :41:19. | :41:28. | |
translating. Mickael Barzalona's English isn't fluid yet. I hit, | :41:28. | :41:31. | |
just started to run around a bit, just been running two-and-a-half | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
miles so getting tired on the round. I tapped with my right, he shifted | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
to the left a bit. I brushed Mr Mickael Barzalona for the stride, | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
corrected him straightaway and at the end he won nicely by half a | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
length, but the horse were very tired towards the end and running | :41:49. | :41:57. | |
around a bit. Could you explain to Mr Mickael Barzalona what Frankie | :41:57. | :42:07. | |
:42:07. | :42:14. | ||
Dettori just said? ( she translates) Nothing more to say? | :42:14. | :42:20. | |
Please could you wait outside for a minute. Mr Mickael Barzalona you | :42:20. | :42:30. | |
:42:30. | :42:35. | ||
can go. So the stipendiary stewards and the stewards on duty today | :42:35. | :42:37. | |
examining the different angles of this interference and listening to | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
text plan nation of Frankie. There's no doubt Frankie's caused | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
the interference here, but he said I've given him a couple of bumps | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
and gosh, they've ended up really the first four not pulling far | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
clear of the others and that is the result of the steady pace earlier | :42:53. | :42:58. | |
on and the horses fin nirking the Gold Cup better than they do. -- | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
finishing. The result's very quick. The result is not going to be | :43:02. | :43:09. | |
changed here. Unaffected. The placings remain | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
unaltered. Colour Vision takes the Gold Cup. Sheikh Mohammed and the | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
Princess can celebrate. Releaf all round. Frankie Dettori has indeed | :43:17. | :43:23. | |
won the Gold Cup, the sun is shining and the Italian's dismount | :43:23. | :43:29. | |
was not in vein. Congratulations to Mr Saeed bin Suroor, great success. | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
They've all been talking about the time. That is 25 seconds outside | :43:34. | :43:38. | |
the record, so very, very slow. That's why they were crawling | :43:39. | :43:42. | |
earlier. You can see Saddler's Rock pulling hard early and Fame And | :43:42. | :43:52. | |
:43:52. | :43:59. | ||
second time because the result's confirmed. Her Majesty the Queen | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
presents her first trophy of the week and Frankie Dettori is running | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
out from the weighing room to join Sheikh Mohammed and Saeed bin | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
Suroor and the Princess and always Willie dreadful for a jockey when | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
you know you have ridden a great race and done everything you can | :44:15. | :44:23. | |
and you have to wait and survive misses a beat really and there's a | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
period where the stewards could go either way. But I think if it would | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
have been a short head, the stewards might have had grounds to | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
do something but because he won by half a length and he was going away | :44:35. | :44:40. | |
at the finish, that was the reasons their placings remain unaltered. | :44:40. | :44:46. | |
Frankie will be very, very happy having his first winner here at | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
Royal Ascot. A one two for Godolphin, shake mupld comes | :44:50. | :44:55. | |
forward to receive the Gold Cup -- Sheikh Mohammed. Sheikh Mohammed | :44:55. | :45:02. | |
and the Queen have so much shared interest in horse races and so much | :45:02. | :45:09. | |
so that the Sheikh gives the Queen so many yearlings as a gift. | :45:09. | :45:14. | |
Carlton House was last year's one, finished second in the Prince of | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
Wales Stakes. They have much to discuss and Sheikh Mohammed is a | :45:17. | :45:23. | |
great sportsman and he's matched and surpassed in enthusiasm for the | :45:23. | :45:28. | |
game by Frankie Dettori who's deep in discussion with the Princess | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
Royal there. Saeed bin Suroor coming forward. He's such a | :45:33. | :45:38. | |
gentleman. He's so dignified, quite and charming and polite and lovely | :45:38. | :45:48. | |
:45:48. | :45:55. | ||
said that he is the most successful jockey in Ascot history. He is the | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
most successful jockey currently holding a licence. Lester Piggott | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
may have something to say about that! Everybody is aware of the | :46:03. | :46:06. | |
situation he has been in. Like a first-choice striker for football | :46:06. | :46:11. | |
team. His position has been challenged. Hasn't he handled it | :46:11. | :46:20. | |
well? He has. Mike Fernando Torres at Chelsea. He kept getting | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
supplemented. What is the word? He is the sort of guy that needs to be | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
in the public eye. He needs to be riding winners, because he is the | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
sort of character that as soon as his bottom it drops and you get | :46:37. | :46:45. | |
disappointed when things are not going his way. -- his bottom lip | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
drops. And the English crowd loves to see Frankie Dettori riding | :46:49. | :46:56. | |
winners. He will be the happiest man in the weighing room today. | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
Because he has come off the bend and scored the winning goal at the | :46:59. | :47:05. | |
FA Cup. That is what it feels like to home. I think he will have been | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
touched by the reaction of people, so concerned when the rumours were | :47:09. | :47:13. | |
flying around that he might be retiring. That he was somehow | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
sidelined. He will have been really surprised by the warmth of a motion | :47:17. | :47:25. | |
and affection. Let's hear from him now. -- emotion and affection. | :47:25. | :47:30. | |
said they cannot keep you down. I suppose that was a statement. | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
was great. They were both great horses, grid warriors, and it was a | :47:34. | :47:39. | |
hard decision to make. I finish with the best but it was a short | :47:39. | :47:43. | |
margin and I am delighted for the team and for myself as well. It has | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
been a very hard week and I am glad this came up. A great reception | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
when you came back in. A lot of people are on your team. It is | :47:51. | :47:57. | |
great. We have got a great team. It is a great result for us. You are | :47:57. | :48:01. | |
the old dog and there are some new kids on the block. They must have | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
been some extra interment edging out Barcelona in the closing | :48:06. | :48:12. | |
stages? -- extra enjoyment. We are friends but you want to win for | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
yourself. It does not matter who is in the finish with me, you always | :48:15. | :48:21. | |
try to win. Have you proven that you are still the top man? | :48:21. | :48:26. | |
Really? I have to prove it in the next race. This raised has gone now. | :48:26. | :48:32. | |
You are always remembered for the last one. -- this race has gone now. | :48:32. | :48:39. | |
The crowd think you are the top man. Thank you! Well, it would not be | :48:39. | :48:48. | |
Ascot without Frankie Dettori winning. Colour Vision wins. It is | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
one two for the boys in blue, Godolphin. | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
Just fantastic. I think that has made the day. It makes it royal | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
Ascot. The best race of the whole week, the richest race, the most | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
prestigious. And two wins it? Godolphin with Frankie Dettori on | :49:05. | :49:11. | |
board. Fantastic. He has made this week even more special. We will | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
change the Fame And Glory news and what happened to him and the | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
reaction from Aidan O'Brien soon. But we have been enjoying the Gold | :49:19. | :49:29. | |
:49:29. | :49:58. | ||
has come out. Glorious scenes. You have just seen beautiful ladies | :49:59. | :50:03. | |
with wonderful hats. Top milliner, Stephen Jones, it is lovely to see | :50:03. | :50:08. | |
you here. It is lovely to be here, fantastic. You have got a fashion | :50:08. | :50:13. | |
show. What makes a really good at. How do you wear them? With | :50:13. | :50:18. | |
confidence. You have to get used to them. It is not a pair of jeans | :50:18. | :50:23. | |
that you plonk on before you go out. You have to wear them at home, | :50:23. | :50:25. | |
rehearse. They make you feel different, they turn you into a | :50:25. | :50:31. | |
Princess. Thank you! These are some of your models. Please talk us | :50:31. | :50:37. | |
through the designs. She is wearing his black organza hat, a little bit | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
like a buy corn. It does very well with the outfit. Gold braid around | :50:43. | :50:49. | |
the edge of it. Fantastic lines and shapes on her face. Very beautiful. | :50:49. | :50:55. | |
An ice silhouette as well. Absolutely. -- nice silhouette. | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
Hats have been getting bigger. Because of the new guidance is that | :50:58. | :51:04. | |
we should not be wearing fascinators, people have really | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
gone for it and most of the hats have been bigger. That must please | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
you as a milliner. It tested technically be 10 centimetres in | :51:13. | :51:18. | |
the Royal Enclosure. -- it has to be 10 centimetres. Are more women | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
wearing hats? Yes, and more tailoring. A tailored shoulder | :51:22. | :51:27. | |
needs are constructed hat, and the two things go together very well. | :51:27. | :51:31. | |
This says Stephen Jones to me. It is a classic shape, quirky and | :51:31. | :51:40. | |
biddable. Yes, it is a special Diamond Jubilee top hat but with | :51:40. | :51:47. | |
some punk in the bandaging. Punk is really a heritage. You loved that | :51:47. | :51:57. | |
:51:57. | :51:58. | ||
era. Steve Strange back due to start with? Yes, 1000 years ago! I | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
never thought I would still be at Ascot. You are clearly inspired by | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
the 70s feeling. In Britain we have the great classicism of places like | :52:07. | :52:15. | |
Ascot but also the exciting youth movements in our music industry and | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
fashion and culture and the two run parallel. Are we seeing a | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
resurgence of that? We are seeing two things running along together. | :52:23. | :52:28. | |
People do not want to be completely classic or completely raw. If you | :52:28. | :52:34. | |
look at the young princesses, the Duchess of Cambridge, you see how | :52:34. | :52:39. | |
she is wearing a new sort of dress. And lots of hats, which is lovely | :52:39. | :52:44. | |
to see. Then people wearing hats. This is one of your muses. A | :52:44. | :52:51. | |
broadcaster who we know, Olivia. Lovely to see you. You are still in | :52:51. | :52:57. | |
the titles will the BBC. They keep running it out, it is wonderful! I | :52:57. | :53:03. | |
am loving wearing this, it is like being a mermaid. And it is called | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
The Mermaid. It is afraid so that it wafts in the wind and it goes | :53:07. | :53:12. | |
perfectly with your address, which is beatable. Thank you. I wore it | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
because I knew it was going to rain and a thought I could look like a | :53:15. | :53:21. | |
puddle. Much more glamorous than a puddle! You do it like a mermaid. | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
Really terrific to see you. Bentley very much an thank you for this hat | :53:25. | :53:33. | |
as well. More fashion in a few moments. -- thank you very much. | :53:33. | :53:40. | |
Frankie Dettori is happy. He is wearing the colours for the next | :53:41. | :53:50. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 73 seconds | :53:51. | :54:59. | |
race, the Britannia Stakes. Here As you would imagine, a hugely | :54:59. | :55:09. | |
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competitive handicap, the Britannia Haggas Fast Or Free. There are so | :55:35. | :55:41. | |
many horses in this race that you can make a case for. This is Born | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
To Surprise. Michael Bell training and Jamie Spencer about to get on | :55:46. | :55:54. | |
board. Disappointing earlier this year but a good comeback. | :55:54. | :55:58. | |
horses will like the ground now that they like the rain. I will not | :55:58. | :56:05. | |
be surprised if he does not like it. Behind him, Nawwaar. One of a | :56:05. | :56:13. | |
couple for that owner of. Will he be second choice? I think curry man | :56:13. | :56:23. | |
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is number one. That is because he has Paul Hannigan. -- Kahruman. | :56:24. | :56:30. | |
Coming to our left, Chapter Seven. Next to it, in the diamonds, Trader | :56:30. | :56:35. | |
Jack. The Roger Charlton. Lots of good horses in this race. It is | :56:35. | :56:40. | |
hard to go around this field and find a negative. But that guy, he | :56:40. | :56:47. | |
is a super looking cold, well- muscled. He walks well, nice | :56:47. | :56:52. | |
attitude. Just the right size. worried about the ground for him. | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
They were worried about soft ground at the start of the season. Soft | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
ground is coming. You could see by the Gold Cup that the horses were | :56:59. | :57:06. | |
rolling around a lot. It does not matter what the ground is like. It | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
is what the heavens give us. The ground is a forgery getting quite | :57:10. | :57:18. | |
loose. Not too many left in the paddock apart from Swing Alone. | :57:18. | :57:22. | |
Trained by Gay Kelleway, the only woman to win a race at Royal Ascot. | :57:22. | :57:32. | |
That is amazing. Given Hayley Turner and other women. This is a | :57:32. | :57:38. | |
hot-tempered horse. A ring bit in the mouth, so very keen. Very | :57:38. | :57:45. | |
generous in what he does. They will be taking him down nice and quietly. | :57:45. | :57:50. | |
Neil Callan looks quite relaxed, chatting away. Who would you like | :57:51. | :57:56. | |
to win? William Haggas, of course, Fast Or Free. He will like the cut | :57:56. | :58:06. | |
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in the ground. Yes, Fast Or Free well fancied, and we can see him in | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
slow motion cantering to the start, is that he has won his last two | :58:25. | :58:29. | |
starts. He ran once last year as a two-year-old but he has run twice | :58:29. | :58:34. | |
this season and has beaten a big field at Newmarket. Ryan Moore | :58:34. | :58:38. | |
staying on board, not surprisingly. He will have had a choice of | :58:38. | :58:42. | |
several mounts in this race. We have seen him winning earlier this | :58:42. | :58:48. | |
week. William Haggas, very shrewd out for it. They know what they are | :58:48. | :58:58. | |
:58:58. | :58:59. | ||
doing on the big day. That is Fast Or Free cantering down to the start. | :58:59. | :59:05. | |
This horse does it nice and easy. I any action. The jockeys say that | :59:06. | :59:13. | |
the rain has just started to open up the ground. This horse looks | :59:13. | :59:18. | |
really well. Robert Winston in the plate, the really good fellow, who | :59:18. | :59:23. | |
had a bad action which stopped him being a good jockey. He smashed his | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
jaw quite badly. Another good horses trained by Roger Charlton | :59:27. | :59:32. | |
and we can hear from his trainer. It is Trader Jack. Roger Charlton | :59:32. | :59:37. | |
is with me. He trained Trader Jack's father as well. At the start | :59:37. | :59:42. | |
of the season it seemed that soft ground would be against this horse. | :59:42. | :59:46. | |
Does that worry you? His second race last time was on very soft | :59:46. | :59:49. | |
ground and you won easily so I thought that was what he liked. | :59:49. | :59:54. | |
Then we ran him at Sandown, and he actually hated the ground. But that | :59:54. | :00:00. | |
was very soft that day. I am hoping that the ground will be fine. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
drawn in stall 15. That would normally be a de -- dilemma, but | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
the runners are coming down the middle of the course. It is out of | :00:11. | :00:16. | |
our control, really. They know what to do and they will take pot luck | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
but I soon they stick to the middle of the course. He is drawn in the | :00:20. | :00:26. | |
middle. -- I assumed they will stick to the middle. It will be | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
quite a cavalry charge. Thank you for talking to us. I'm surrounded | :00:31. | :00:38. | |
by some very tall men and this is a very tall one. Sorry to bother you. | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
You are associated with a couple of runners. Graphic from the Royal | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
Ascot Racing Club and Apostle. Tell us about their chances. Graphic, if | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
he reproduces the Newmarket form, could have an each-way squeak. But | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
he was really disappointing last time when it was very heavy ground | :00:57. | :01:03. | |
but he should go well on this sort of ground. Apostle, he is tough, | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
well, you know. He is one of those courses where there is nowhere else | :01:07. | :01:13. | |
to run for him. For folks involved in the syndicate, it will be tough | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
for him because the handicap has got a grip on him but he is working | :01:16. | :01:26. | |
:01:26. | :01:33. | ||
to the horses. He's over for the Olympics. It wouldnd take him | :01:33. | :01:43. | |
toopbgs to run there and back, would it? -- too long. I've just | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
been talking about his stride length which is 13 or 14 feet. | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
imagine yours is similar? I'm very slow but Edwin's a great guy and he | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
went undefeated ford ten years in competition and won sports awards. | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
He'll be commentating during the Olympics which is great. Great to | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
see him here at Royal Ascot. Thanks for talking to us. | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
Just rattle through a few more of these, because there are so many of | :02:12. | :02:20. | |
us and Frog Hollow definitely has a chance. Three runners in this race. | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
A few have run against this horse as well. In a race won by Gabriel | :02:27. | :02:36. | |
at Haydock did well but this is a great horse. The dark green, | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
Compton there. William Bewick rides there. Let's see what else we can | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
find. Let's have a look at Frankie Dettori. Nobody's hotter than the | :02:44. | :02:51. | |
man who's just won the Gold Cup. He's riding Piri Wango here. This | :02:51. | :03:00. | |
horse has ran on the all-weather at Dundalk. Yes. This horse OK was | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
relatively well beaten but the horse that finished second or third | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
was advertised to form. Joe Lyons likes not just social winners, so | :03:11. | :03:17. | |
he'll be on a high, Frankie, after winning the last race, it will do | :03:17. | :03:27. | |
:03:27. | :03:27. | ||
him good. Prince Alzain there, Eddie Ahern riding this for Gerard | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
:03:37. | :03:41. | ||
will only run their horses three times if they have the Britannia in | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
mind and Prince Alzain's ran a little bit more often that that. | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
What about Leqqaa who's having a decent season? He's normally number | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
two to Henry Cecil, we see him on the likes of Bullet Train and | :03:57. | :04:03. | |
occasionally the form is reversed and he'll get to ride a big winner. | :04:03. | :04:10. | |
Great jockey. He is. Equitable Equitable. Ian normally travels to | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
Ascot on his motorbike because he normally heads off and beats the | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
traffic, weaving in and out. Joe tp fanning riding Switzerland. Mark | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
Johnston's firing a fair few. horse has a chance. You are saying | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
that about everything? But it's a massive handicap and I'm trying to | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
cover myself in glory after yesterday. Exactly. That's been | :04:37. | :04:46. | |
said of 29 out of the 30 runners. Richard Hannon's got plenty of | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
runners in this. I don't know what the pecking order will be like. | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
would like to think Richard has a few chances. | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
Leqqaa there. Democretes here. Stepping up from | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
six furlongs to a mile. Good form at two furlongs. Just struggled to | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
recapture that level. The stalls handlers doing such a | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
good job. We should do a piece on them, a day in the life of them. | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
Amazing, they're piled on to a bus and off they go, meeting to meeting. | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
Stkpwh you can see that one's going to go forward relatively easily, | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
but they have to get their weight behind it and they have to keep | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
calm around the horses as well. A lot of them get wound up and are | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
not necessarily showing their best when they're wound up. Frog Hollow. | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
:05:57. | :06:07. | ||
A definite chance. Crowley riding fairly quickly so we'll hand you | :06:07. | :06:15. | |
over to Jim. Going forward there is Forest Row and John attempting to | :06:15. | :06:25. | |
:06:25. | :06:27. | ||
complete a really big double. There he is. Big chance of Forest Row to | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
win the Britannia. The last couple going forward now. Prince Alzain | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
going in. Hamza is locked away. I think they are just about ready for | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
the Britannia. They are set. They're racing and away to a good | :06:41. | :06:48. | |
start too. One of the first away on the near side is Come On Blue Chip. | :06:48. | :06:56. | |
They split into two groups now. Lord of the Shadows. As they settle | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
into stride, it's Lord of the Shadows on the near side showing | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
the way. On the near side, it's Hamza up there as well. So too | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Leqqaa not that far away. Bronze Angel there as well and also in | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
that group is Red Seventy. Come On Blue Chip is there as well. Frog | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
Hollow followed by Swing Alone. The far side now, and we've got Piri | :07:22. | :07:29. | |
Wango, Frankie Dettori on the far side up there as well Fast Or Free. | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
Lucky Henry behind them. Graphic followed by row row row. As they | :07:34. | :07:43. | |
head up now towards halfway -- Forest Row. Hamza on the near side. | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
Trying to get into it as well. They are starting to verge now and over | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
on the far side, Piri Wango being tackled by Fast Or Free. Van Ellis. | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
Lucky Henry. Bronze Angel. Hamza battling on. Mississippi coming in | :08:01. | :08:06. | |
from Graphic. Compton. Fast Or Free has taken it up now with furlong | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
left to go. Mister Music out after him. Followed by Compton. The | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
action on the far side. Fast Or Free trying to hold on. Coming fast | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
is Mister Music and Bronze Angel. Fast Or Free is going to win the | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Britannia. Mister Music second, third Bronze Angel, fourth is | :08:26. | :08:36. | |
:08:36. | :08:38. | ||
Compton, followed further back by Piri Wango, then Kahruman. Born To | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
Surprise. One of the last to cross the line, there are a couple of | :08:42. | :08:52. | |
:08:52. | :09:02. | ||
groups of them, one of the last was Ian and Christine. This gelding by | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
Not Now Kay toe. Elated with that if I can I have -- Kato. Let's see | :09:09. | :09:18. | |
them cross the line. Bronze Angel finished with a flourish for third. | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
Compton fourth. They're strung out aren't they. Piri Wango behind them. | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
Crosss the line ahead of Kahruman. A gap of four or five lengths to | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
Born To Surprise and Swing Alone. And then just behind them is Hamza | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
who showed so much early pace. Van Ellis. Further back in the centre, | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
the diamond jacket, Trader Jack and also there is Graphic. Not that far | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
away is Switzerland and also my opinion sip pi there in that group | :09:50. | :10:00. | |
:10:00. | :10:00. | ||
as well. Then deck deck deck -- Switzerland and also Mississippi | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
and Democretes. Frog Hollow, further back Chapter Seven. Lucky | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
Henry. Apostle well back and the last few straggleers. Come On Blue | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
Chip. Another four there. They muffin Nished over half a furlong | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
between first to last. There's the winner though, number | :10:18. | :10:28. | |
:10:28. | :10:51. | ||
29, Fast Or Free, ridden by Ryan like a favourite as well. The | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
punters are cheering and the bookmakers weeping because this | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
horse was really well supported. The 6-1 favourite fast or free | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
comes home in front to give Ryan Moore his second winner of the week, | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
Mr Haggis's first. He hits the back of the net this time. In style as | :11:09. | :11:16. | |
well. This horse has rad a really sweet run through and Ryan needs a | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
little bit of company. Poor old Hayley Turner. My heart bleeds for | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
her because it was left on its own. You have heard from Willie when he | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
said the draw doesn't really matter as long as you know where the pace | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
:11:38. | :11:39. | ||
is and the pace was all this side. Ryan Moore knew that he had a horse | :11:39. | :11:46. | |
way out. Maximum 30 runners here and just snook in as number 29. It | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
was a real dicey position to be in having won his two starts so far | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
this year. The handicapper putting him up just enough to get into the | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
race. They must have been pleased to see his name amongst them. It's | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
a 48-hour declaration so two days ago they would have known at 10.10, | :12:06. | :12:16. | |
:12:16. | :12:39. | ||
this horse just snook in. Ryan Moore coming back, his 15th Ascot | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
winner. He was successful yesterday. On Tuesday that was, I beg your | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
pardon. Drained by Willie llins. The last two years, Ryan has won | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
the Royal Ascot top jockey award. He rode a total of four winners in | :12:58. | :13:06. | |
2010 and three winners last year. So he's well on his way here as | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
well to another title. If you go back through the records, | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
you see that Dettori won three in a row back in the late 90s. | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
Hard to do. Mick Kinane did it as well. Another great jockey here at | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
the Royal meeting. But let's check the full result now on this very, | :13:29. | :13:37. | |
very competitive handicap. Another one. The punters are happy down | :13:37. | :13:47. | |
:13:47. | :13:56. | ||
William Haggis just orchestrating the official photo for fast or free | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
-- Fast Or Free. You deserved a change of luck this week? Not sure | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
about that, but it was nice to win. You had a few close shaves. How | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
much of the rain helped him today? I think maybe quite a lot. | :14:08. | :14:16. | |
Because I think he's enjoyed the ground. He did a nice job, he was | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
tailor made for this if he got in and he just did. Improving at a | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
roit of knots, as the old cliche goes, how far do you think he can | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
go -- at a rate of knots? I don't know really, Health and Safety come | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
a long way, had three races in quick succession, so we'll have to | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
sit quiet and see where we go. I'm delighted. Just about a trip for | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
him, pedigree-wise, does it offer scope for a bit more? Yes, it | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
probably does, but Ryan thought after his last run he'd get a mile | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
and a quarter, haven't had tame to talk to him yet, but sounds good | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
for him, plenty of pace and he stays on well. He has a great | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
temperament. Nice to get that Royal Ascot winner isn't it? I can't tell | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
you how much it means to all of us who train to have a winner here, | :15:04. | :15:12. | |
it's great. Well done. Thanks. Let's look back at the closing | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
stages of this Britannia handicap. Willie is with me this time. | :15:15. | :15:23. | |
Nothing very much happened at the but this is coming down to two | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
furlong mark. Most of the action will be over here. This is the | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
winner, travelled nicely the whole way through. Compton is third there. | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
Fourth, sorry. Hayley Turner there. Yes, in the centre. Beats the | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
horses it's running against, but is a little too far away from where it | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
appeared to be where the best ground was. I don't know if it was | :15:49. | :15:59. | |
:15:59. | :16:04. | ||
the best ground but Frankie helped Frankie centres are also good three | :16:04. | :16:13. | |
furlongs out. He sent it. -- Frankie sent his horse three | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
furlongs out. Hayley Turner finished very well. She has come | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
all the way across the track. if we are all the way back through | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
them, it is a long way. You said this was a good looking bunch of | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
horses. They were, but look at them still coming! They are getting | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
rather tired on this fresh rain. It is making the ground a looser on | :16:37. | :16:43. | |
top. Some horses are just scratching. It is interesting to | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
see that the lower the numbers, the faster they seemed to be going. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
had two big handicaps. The one on Saturday afternoon, six furlongs, | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
shorter than this. If it keeps on raining, you want to be drawn low? | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
All those people with low numbers will be happy indeed. That is the | :17:06. | :17:14. | |
Britannia Stakes. A good win and class C. -- a classy win. I have | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
got Ryan Moore with me, the winning jockey. Second win of the week. How | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
good was that performance and this year's Britannia? I don't know how | :17:24. | :17:32. | |
good the race was. My horse is very good. He travels very well with a | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
good rhythm. He showed a good attitude and he is very tough. | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
important is the ground to him? enjoys it. I have only ridden him | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
Onslow ground so I do not know how he would handle it otherwise. | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
could get further in time, as well? At Newmarket I thought he would go | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
further. He stuck it out well here. There is no reason why he would not. | :17:58. | :18:03. | |
Well done. I think you are up next of the presentation. | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
Congratulations. Roger Bannister on the left, the first man to break | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
four minutes for the mile in 1954. Presenting the trophy appropriately | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
to the winner of the mile handicap. And the owners of Fast Or Free, | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
joined now by the trainer, William Haggas. Just a bit more of a | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
postscript to the Gold Cup, we mentioned that fame or glory was | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
disappointing in that. You could see that he was disappointing and | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
we wondered if something might have been amiss. What did Jamie Spencer | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
say? He did some head-scratching, to be honest. He thought that the | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
horse had every chance. They went slow, but it was crawling. But this | :18:46. | :18:56. | |
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horse is capable of picking up off the slow pace, but nothing worked. | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Silvestre De Sousa is part of the Godolphin gang. Was he doing it for | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
them or himself? He seemed to be doing it for himself. He was very | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
pleased with how his horse performed. Ryan Moore on the trophy | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
podium now after his second win of the week. That is enough to put him | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
out in front in terms of the leading jockey. There is no money | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
involved in this but the jockeys really do care about who will take | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
home the trophy. Richard Hughes has got so close in years to come but | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
lost out on the last day. He has not yet had a winner. Ryan Moore on | :19:30. | :19:40. | |
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two and all the rest on one. We have had for 215 -- 15 different | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
jockeys so far. There was a lot of back-slapping going on when Frankie | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
Kovac in because he is popular among the lads. Everybody was keen | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
to say well done because they know what it means to him. Let's have a | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
bit more of the fashion on Ladies' Day with Suzi Perry. | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
Thank you. Even I have had an absolute ball today. It has been | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
her jubilation Ladies' Day. Lots of red, white and blue. The fabulous | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
padded and lots of high heels, so high that women were tottering all | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
over the course. -- a fabulous pageant. We have got some footage | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
and I would like you to commentate as you used to in 1980s style. Can | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
we run the images? There we are. That is the jubilation, red, white | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
and blue. A lot of that. And escalators, a new thing! She seems | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
very happy. That lady is wearing a fascinator beside her. Pashminas or | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
over the place. I am not sure how good they are but they keep the | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
winds out. And then all those colours. Those ladies look as | :20:47. | :20:52. | |
though they are having a great time. Black and white, very traditional. | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
And lots more smaller hats this year. That is a big one. Sliding | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
down the escalator. Look how fabulous it is. And some | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
interesting issues. Very trendy actually. And at length skirt, a | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
bit vintage. Her beautiful jacket. The usual sunglasses and hat | :21:17. | :21:24. | |
combination in bright pink. She looks very elegant. Very classic. | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
We have seen a lot of red in the royal carriages. This lady looks | :21:32. | :21:40. | |
cool with a large hat to keep off the rain. The wedge. We have seen | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
that a lot today. They look lovely. A large bag with everything in it, | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
probably even sandwiches. Royal sandwiches with no crusts? | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
exactly! This is one of the things that has happened. You do not need | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
to be fantastically rich to dress well at Ascot nowadays. You can buy | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
some beautiful day dresses on the High Street. A success is buying | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
vintage. 40s and 50s is a winner at Royal Ascot. We have seen wonderful | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
girls wearing closing older than me. And we saw Carole Middleton earlier | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
and you were impressed. I thought she looked fantastic. If I was | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
still editing a newspaper tomorrow, she would be my picture on the | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
front. She and the Queen would do it very well. They were the stars | :22:28. | :22:35. | |
of the day. She looked lovely in red, just like her daughter. It has | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
been an absolute joy having you with me today. Super. | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
Eve Pollard and Suzi Perry. Many thanks to them. Let's take you | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
through the story of Gold Cup day at Royal Ascot. After two days of | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
bright sunshine, we have grey skies above Ascot Racecourse. The Ladies' | :22:54. | :23:04. | |
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Reckless Abandon! They hit the line and it is very close. Reckless | :23:16. | :23:26. | |
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Abandon. They are off and running. The bird has flown, I reckon. | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
Princess Highway starts to draw away. Winceyette by about five. -- | :23:39. | :23:49. | |
:23:49. | :23:51. | ||
wins it. Half a furlong left to go in the Gold Cup. It is brilliant. | :23:51. | :23:58. | |
Television. They are fighting it out. Colour Vision is doing the | :23:58. | :24:08. | |
:24:08. | :24:31. | ||
best! Colour Vision has got it for Frankie Dettori. 4th of Fast Or | :24:31. | :24:38. | |
Free is going to win the Britannia! I am joined are now by two sporting | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
knights of the realm, Sir Steve Redgrave and Roger Bannister. They | :24:41. | :24:48. | |
have both been presenting trophies today. Are you a regular racegoer? | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
I am not. It is my first time here and it has been fantastic and I | :24:53. | :25:03. | |
:25:03. | :25:05. | ||
presenting a trophy, but is it your first time here? 30 years ago, so | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
it's a very rare occurrence. In retirement you sometimes get asked | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
to do unusual things and so, as it was ladies' day and I've got my | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
wife and my two daughters here, it was something I could not refuse. | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
And they look after you extremely well if you are presenting a trophy | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
so I'm sure you have had a wonderful day. I wanted to ask you | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
about Frankel and the performance over a mile on Tuesday and Sir | :25:28. | :25:34. | |
Roger, given your own performance over a mile, in 1954, and we can | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
have a look at that, when you broke the four-minute barrier for the | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
mile and became the first man to achieve that. In terms of your own | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
physical preparation and mental preparation for this, what do you | :25:45. | :25:54. | |
think was the key? Well, it's the science really of | :25:54. | :26:01. | |
total exhaustion. It's a question of not having anything left at the | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
end or, as I said, taking out of yourself more than you've got. | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
That's the secret and it's the secret I suppose of rowing too. | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
must be and Steve I know that must be and Steve I know that | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
certain rowers and Matthew held that record of the greatest lung | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
capacity, you probably do find that you are put together slightly | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
better than most other people in terms of being able to take in the | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
air that you can? Certainly it's a lot of training and preparation and | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
that is what makes the difference of being able to get to the start | :26:31. | :26:39. | |
line. The people who cross the that have the better capacity in | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
some ways, especially in endurance- based sports, the mile, the 2,000 | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
metres that I used to race, it's about the oxygen uptake that you | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
can absorb the oxygen from the air that you are breathing in. That'ss | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
the key element. There's a survey done recently which says the | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
athletes that've had the higher VO2 maximums have been the ones winning | :27:02. | :27:12. | |
:27:12. | :27:14. | ||
The amazing thing watching Frankel, he did not look like he was | :27:14. | :27:20. | |
expending too much energy. There is no obvious sign is a rule. Red Rum | :27:20. | :27:26. | |
was quite short, I think. Not very tall, but he could sprint and run | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
in the Grand National. I do not think this would happen now. You | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
have to specialise. Sebastian Coe of course held the record for 800 | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
metres. I suppose that is the equivalent to one mile, whereas a | :27:43. | :27:48. | |
mile in horseracing terms is probably two miles. It is very | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
difficult to draw comparisons. Thinking about physical shape, and | :27:53. | :28:01. | |
when you get an outstanding athlete, like you. -- Usain Bolt, very tall | :28:01. | :28:05. | |
with that long stride, once he gets started he is very difficult to | :28:05. | :28:11. | |
beat. To take the science a little bit further, the muscles have got | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
fast twitch fibres, which are needed by the sprinter. They run up | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
an oxygen debt. Lactic acid. And there are slow twitching fibres | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
that are needed by marathon runners. It so happens that for the human | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
being, the mile is exactly halfway between. I suppose I did not bother | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
to have a test of my muscle composition, but I was probably 50% | :28:38. | :28:48. | |
:28:48. | :28:49. | ||
fast fibre and 50% slow. Usain Bolt is probably 90% fast. That is what | :28:49. | :28:54. | |
we now know scientifically about it. A fascinating to discuss this and | :28:54. | :29:00. | |
beaded into other sports. Wonderful to talk to you. Steve Redgrave and | :29:00. | :29:10. | |
:29:10. | :29:10. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 73 seconds | :29:10. | :30:01. | |
is over a mile and a quarter. The open. Wrotham Heath is the | :30:01. | :30:11. | |
:30:11. | :30:24. | ||
five, a little look ahead to tomorrow, day four. The Coronation | :30:24. | :30:30. | |
Stakes is the big race on the cards. Martin will be riding summer tarred | :30:30. | :30:34. | |
tomorrow, the winner of the Irish 1000 Guineas. That must be a great | :30:34. | :30:43. | |
memory for you. Yes, it will stay with me for a long time. To do it | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
on home soil was fantastic. That was your first ride, wasn't it? | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
my first ride on the filly and a classic. Things going well. The | :30:55. | :31:01. | |
runner-up that day has already come out in the Jersey Stakes. The form | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
has had a nice boost already. People will think it was not a true | :31:06. | :31:10. | |
run, but I think it took the filly to come to herself through the year, | :31:10. | :31:18. | |
and she's got on the day and she has been in great form since. -- | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
she sparked on the day. What about the weather? There are showers | :31:23. | :31:29. | |
forecast. Do you want more rain? Not really, to be honest, but I | :31:29. | :31:37. | |
prefer the ground to be looser than dead. She was good racing on soft | :31:37. | :31:41. | |
ground last year, quite close. Whatever will happen, we cannot | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
change it. She has been on good form at home. I tried ter on tough | :31:46. | :31:52. | |
ground and she went through it. All we can do is hope. Hopefully your | :31:52. | :32:02. | |
:32:02. | :32:05. | ||
Grimm in this race. Just the one start this year, that was over a | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
mile. Stepping up today, what is the thinking? He indicated in that | :32:10. | :32:13. | |
race that he'd want further than a mile. We've always liked him. I | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
would be a bit concerned about the ground, we don't really know, he | :32:17. | :32:20. | |
has an American pedigree and probably wants it quicker than it | :32:20. | :32:24. | |
is. A word on the well-being of Carlton House after a great run | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
yesterday? A little stiff this morning, which is to be expected | :32:27. | :32:35. | |
and we'll sit down and think about the next move. Thank you very | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
much.- -Henry Cecil talking about the chances of his runner, but this | :32:40. | :32:50. | |
is Wrotham Heath. That is, sorry, that was Michael Stoute, we are | :32:50. | :32:57. | |
looking at Henry Cecil there. This is a horse we saw at Epsom and were | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
pretty impressed, to be honest. I think he'd have a chance, a | :33:02. | :33:10. | |
definite chance. Giving Henry Cecil and Tom Queally a winner? Yes, he | :33:10. | :33:15. | |
did a good job at Epsom that day. Sir Henry Cecil obviously thinks | :33:15. | :33:20. | |
he's taken that race at Epsom quite well so he's brought him out again | :33:20. | :33:28. | |
here today after only 19 days since he last ran. Of course, Stipulate | :33:28. | :33:34. | |
is also one of his two runners in the race, Sir Henry Cecil. Also in | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
the colours of Khalid Abdullah. We are looking atom Queally here, | :33:39. | :33:44. | |
close-up and slow motion on Wrotham Heath. He rides with his toe in the | :33:44. | :33:50. | |
iron, as so many jockeys do these days. That's where you get your | :33:50. | :33:59. | |
balance from, when you put your toe in the irons, the ball of the foot. | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
Put a finger up into the mane so you don't set yourself up too much. | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
Set your weight against the horse's mouth and make sure he doesn't go | :34:08. | :34:18. | |
:34:18. | :34:18. | ||
any faster than he should. It's quite amazing that all those | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
horses... We heard Michael Stoute talking about horse. Khalid | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
Abdullah doesn't ever buy horses, they are all farm bred. It's | :34:26. | :34:30. | |
amazing the success he has, it means he has a very good team at | :34:30. | :34:40. | |
home running the show and a lot of lovely... Uh-oh, that horse has | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
broke down, has he? I don't think so, just pulling him up. He's all | :34:46. | :34:53. | |
right. I was a bit frightened there for a spell. This is Grandeur, | :34:53. | :34:57. | |
Frankie Dettori, the man who'll be in the headlines tomorrow and | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
talked about on the radio reports this evening having won the Gold | :35:01. | :35:09. | |
Cup. Grand yur generally looked to be progressing -- Grandeur. The | :35:09. | :35:13. | |
form with Wrotham Heath, well, actually it will be very | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
interesting to see what happens today because there is a six pound | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
difference in the weights this time around. You would think that would | :35:20. | :35:25. | |
be enough to put Grandeur in frofpbt and obviously it's a | :35:25. | :35:32. | |
different racecourse -- Grandeur in front. Looks more nippy. He has | :35:32. | :35:35. | |
sort of, as we were watching his action there, he went down that | :35:35. | :35:40. | |
hill to the mile and a quarter from the mile and half and he was moving | :35:40. | :35:44. | |
really well on that ground. He's got Frankie Dettori on his back and | :35:44. | :35:48. | |
when Frankie's just had a winner, he's buzzing. I think he's good for | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
a couple of lengths when he's in this sort of frame of mind. Let's | :35:52. | :36:02. | |
take a look at the betting and the prices: Grandeur and Wrotham Heath | :36:02. | :36:12. | |
:36:12. | :36:21. | ||
than Hayley Turner who becomes the first womb to ride a winner here | :36:21. | :36:27. | |
says Kellaway in the '80s. A horse called Rewarded here has decent | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
form coming into this. Newbury last time, badly hampered. Possibly | :36:31. | :36:37. | |
might have won that day. So this horse is not without a chance here | :36:37. | :36:43. | |
so we've got a girl jockey on board. Kirsty might be the second lady to | :36:43. | :36:53. | |
:36:53. | :36:54. | ||
win at Royal Ascot. The horse is not without a chance. The Maktoum | :36:54. | :37:01. | |
colours thatryed for so many years by Willie Carson. They really fancy | :37:02. | :37:11. | |
:37:12. | :37:12. | ||
this horse on Mukhadram tsh - coloured carried for so many years. | :37:12. | :37:20. | |
The jockey likes the horse, that means he has a chance. This German | :37:20. | :37:30. | |
:37:30. | :37:30. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 73 seconds | :37:30. | :38:14. | |
years ago and Schelnderhand was very successful. Wearing hoods in | :38:14. | :38:23. | |
races is catching on. Energizer, his owner's had a couple of races | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
before. Stipulate, the second string of Henry Cecil's runners or | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
the second lot of colours for Khalid Abdullah. | :38:32. | :38:37. | |
On form, you would say that Stipulate is better than Wrotham | :38:37. | :38:47. | |
:38:47. | :38:53. | ||
Heath. Both the Khalid Abdullah horses are good. | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
He's running two to make sure he gets the prize. Tailed off in the | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
Sandown classic, but the ground here is not as bad as it was then. | :39:01. | :39:06. | |
That was the day when Joseph O'Brien went round the trees. It | :39:06. | :39:11. | |
was possibly that day that was false form for this horse. Forget | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
that. There's Richard Hughes who's had a | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
few that have run all right, but not quite having the week that he | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
wanted. When Frankie won the Gold Cup, Richard Hughes was the first | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
to say, isn't that brilliant. All the other jockeys happy for him. | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
That's good. Richard Hannon's never won this race, and in the last ten | :39:30. | :39:35. | |
runnings, he's only had one horse finish in the first six. Only | :39:35. | :39:40. | |
beaten by a short head one year to be fair, but he tends to be very | :39:40. | :39:48. | |
successful in the shorter races than in the two-year-old races. | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
This horse wound group 3 at Newmarket, so he should be able to | :39:53. | :40:03. | |
:40:03. | :40:03. | ||
cope with this Group 3 here. There's Paul Hanagan, champion | :40:03. | :40:13. | |
jockey. He'll be looking for a win here on Mukhadram. Frankie Dettori | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
will be on a high. They're set. And they're racing! | :40:17. | :40:24. | |
And on the outside, just a fraction astride was Wrotham Heath trapped | :40:24. | :40:30. | |
wide early down near the inside, Cavaleiro in company with Rewarded | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
and all the time Tom Queally is looking over to see if he can cross. | :40:34. | :40:40. | |
Three wide as they race into Swindley Bottom. Now on the fence | :40:40. | :40:45. | |
and he settles in the lead. Wrotham Heath chose the way by two lengths, | :40:45. | :40:54. | |
Cavaleiro, Goldoni. Followed by Rewarded. Mukhadram. Half a length | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
further back is Stipulate on the outside from grand yush giving them | :40:58. | :41:04. | |
a fair start. -- Grandeur. They leave Swindley Bottom. | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
Richard Hughes has broken away from the pack on Crius and has gone | :41:09. | :41:15. | |
right to the far side, taking the Willie Carson route under the trees. | :41:15. | :41:21. | |
The leader of Stipulate by three or four lengths to second place to | :41:21. | :41:31. | |
Cavaleiro, followed by, I should ait's Wrotham Heath in front. | :41:31. | :41:35. | |
Grandeur. Still alone on the far side, Crius. Still a long way from | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
the leader. As they come up towards the turn, it's Wrotham Heath the | :41:39. | :41:45. | |
leder by two lengths to Stipulate. Grandeur coming into it now for | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
Dettori on the outside. Half a length to Goldoni. Followed by | :41:49. | :41:56. | |
Mukhadram. Rewarded dropped back, followed by Energizer. Tales Of | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
Grimm. Crius has tailed off. The two Cecil runners together on the | :42:00. | :42:07. | |
near side. Stipulate takes it up from Wrotham Heath. Grandeur, | :42:07. | :42:11. | |
Mukhadram, Energizer for Germany. Right down the outside, Energizer | :42:11. | :42:16. | |
racing quickly. A furlong left. It's the German-trained runner | :42:16. | :42:22. | |
who'll take it. Energizer, three lengths in front. Battling away is | :42:22. | :42:28. | |
Stipulate. Followed by muck muck. Here is one for Germany. Energizer | :42:28. | :42:38. | |
:42:38. | :42:57. | ||
15-2 winner at Royal Ascot for Germany. Trained by jens | :42:57. | :43:07. | |
:43:07. | :43:07. | ||
Hirschberger. Second is number 9, Stipulate. Rewarded third and | :43:07. | :43:15. | |
fourth is Mukhadram. Energizer going to the line here. About three | :43:15. | :43:21. | |
or four lengths I would say, or three-and-a-half, ahead of | :43:21. | :43:28. | |
Stipulate. A similar distance, Rewarded, fourth Mukhadram, Tales | :43:28. | :43:33. | |
Of Grimm on the near side. Goldoni in the centre. Grandeur. Frankie | :43:33. | :43:38. | |
Dettori. He was on a high but his horse wasn't good enough. And then | :43:38. | :43:43. | |
a gap of eight lengths or so to Cavaleiro who came here after a run | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
in the Derby. And Wrotham Heath who had to work to get over to the | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
inside rail for Tom yeely had nothing left at all. Crius was the | :43:52. | :44:02. | |
:44:02. | :44:07. | ||
one who broke away from them. Tom Queally. Energizer is the winner | :44:07. | :44:12. | |
and the distance is two-and-a-half lengths and the same and the time | :44:12. | :44:22. | |
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2.10.03. That's the time. There it is. For this Tercentenary Stakes. | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
Such an international Stake stage here. Ireland doing particularly | :44:31. | :44:36. | |
well and Hong Kong, a famous win on the first day and now one for | :44:36. | :44:46. | |
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Germany. trained winner at Royal Ascot. | :44:48. | :44:57. | |
We've had German-bred and owned winners before. This horse owned, | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
bred and trained in Germany, ridden by a German jockey as well and | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
really appreciating the rain- softened ground and also the very | :45:07. | :45:16. | |
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fast pace set by Wrotham Heath. Power-packed finish and come home | :45:25. | :45:33. | |
impressively in front. His owner has plenty of stock with | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
stamina. The ground is getting softer, you need a horse that's | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
going to get the distance really well and you can see a very happy | :45:40. | :45:47. | |
jockey there. He's taking in the first ever trained ever German | :45:47. | :45:53. | |
winner here at Royal Ascot. He won it really, really well indeed. The | :45:53. | :45:59. | |
second horse Sir Henry Cecil's regarded as the second, but his | :45:59. | :46:05. | |
form suggested he would be the first in. A very, very good race. | :46:05. | :46:15. | |
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The third horse, Rewarded, Kirsty into the winner's enclosure. | :46:28. | :46:38. | |
this is the first. Adrie De Vries, those that follow racing in the | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
Middle East will tell you that he is one of the leading jockeys in | :46:41. | :46:48. | |
Qatar and has been for some time. A very talented rider. He has ridden | :46:48. | :46:58. | |
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many winners there. This will be something very new for him. And a | :46:59. | :47:09. | |
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very capable horseman. He has got the best out of Energizer and won. | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
He is wearing a hood for the first time, but sometimes that can be | :47:18. | :47:27. | |
deceptive. Certainly in Ireland, they do not recognise that at all. | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
It comes under the heading of blinkers. It is really a | :47:31. | :47:41. | |
technicality. It is just a bit more specialised when describing what | :47:41. | :47:51. | |
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the head gear is. Now we can have a look at the full result. The German | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
football team are doing well in the Ukraine and they have hit the back | :47:56. | :48:06. | |
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of the net at the Ascot. With the winning trainer, Jens Hirschberger. | :48:08. | :48:12. | |
We will try the interview in English but if it does not go well, | :48:12. | :48:17. | |
we have our translator here. When did you come to plan to Ascot with | :48:17. | :48:25. | |
the horse? We looked at the last road. -- the last race. It was too | :48:25. | :48:33. | |
short. We looked at the book. said the distance was too short so | :48:33. | :48:40. | |
we had a look at the programme and he found this race. You will be | :48:40. | :48:44. | |
excited by the rain. Lots of people assumed that with his pedigree he | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
would go in the ground. He loves the ground, definitely. If it is a | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
monsoon, perfect for him! What does it mean to have a Royal Ascot | :48:53. | :49:00. | |
winner? It is a great feeling. is all that you need to say! Thank | :49:00. | :49:06. | |
you and I replace you with your winning rider. Adrie De Vries. That | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
was a match Everson performance and really gutsy from the horse. -- | :49:12. | :49:18. | |
magnificent performance. Yes, he wanted to step up. He settled today | :49:18. | :49:26. | |
and he should really good turn of foot. It looked like a battle. | :49:26. | :49:33. | |
testing ground and the last furlong but it helped. The step up from | :49:33. | :49:42. | |
that run in the Guineas? Yes, we put the had on him and he settled. | :49:42. | :49:49. | |
Royal Ascot win for you, what is that like? Amazing. Congratulations. | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
Well done. Amazing is what it is and it has been an amazing day the | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
Frankie Dettori as well. Victorious in the Gold Cup, surviving the | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
inquiry into interference in the closing stages between Colour | :50:02. | :50:07. | |
Vision and his Godolphin team mate Opinion Poll. You can see that | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
bumping just there, but the stewards ruled that it did not | :50:11. | :50:16. | |
improve Colour Vision's position. The placings remained unaltered. | :50:16. | :50:23. | |
The mud-spattered Frankie celebrated in style. Fame And Glory | :50:23. | :50:27. | |
was very disappointing, the well- backed favourite. No excuses | :50:27. | :50:31. | |
offered. They say nothing is wrong with the horse but it just was not | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
to be today. That is frankly explaining what happened with | :50:35. | :50:43. | |
Barzalona at the inquiry afterwards. -- Frankie explaining. Not too long | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
to wait for that response. Apart from a royal winner, which would | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
have been lovely, the only thing that was missing was frankly. | :50:52. | :51:02. | |
him winning the Gold Cup or was wonderful. -- Frankie. German | :51:02. | :51:08. | |
horses winning, Frankie Dettori beating everything, and most | :51:08. | :51:14. | |
amazing horse. You have had a very good day. Two winners in the second | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
and one to go. These are the horses that Willie Carson recommended at | :51:17. | :51:25. | |
the beginning of the day. Let us abandon won. Fame And Glory let you | :51:25. | :51:30. | |
down. -- Reckless Abandon won. You told me you were going to go for | :51:30. | :51:36. | |
Colour Vision. Yes, but the rain let me down. Tales of Grimm did not | :51:36. | :51:42. | |
look as though he enjoyed that ground. Adam Kirby Road Reckless | :51:42. | :51:47. | |
Abandon. The stewards looked at his use of the whip and they are | :51:47. | :51:49. | |
referring him to the British Horseracing Association because he | :51:49. | :51:56. | |
has had some infractions. He has got to go to the head office to | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
talk about it and look at the films. The presentation is being made | :52:02. | :52:08. | |
behind us by Virginia Wade, to the German collections of Energizer. | :52:08. | :52:17. | |
She won Wimbledon in 1977, the Silver Jubilee year. Jens | :52:17. | :52:27. | |
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Hirschberger and the owners. They are receiving that trophy and | :52:28. | :52:36. | |
holding it aloft. Germany have a winner! In terms of the European | :52:36. | :52:40. | |
Championships, they are in full swing. Quarter-final action tonight | :52:40. | :52:48. | |
at 7:30pm on BBC One. The Czech Republic against Portugal. We will | :52:48. | :52:52. | |
be on air tomorrow at 1:45pm on BBC One and there will be coverage on | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
BBC Two at BBC interactive. That is where we are going now because we | :52:56. | :53:00. |