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You dream of it as a kid. All you can concentrate on is the clock. | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
The countdown. Have I dreamed this dream before? Did I just imagine | :00:27. | :00:37. | |
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this place? Shadows of past greats begin, memories of glory days echo | :00:39. | :00:48. | |
around these halls. Just how will I make my mark? For 300 years we have | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
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descended upon this holy ground. This heartland of racing and | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
majesty. This place doesn't shout allowed to you -- aloud to you. It | :01:05. | :01:13. | |
whispers with grace. Wheupb I journey to -- when I | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
journey will the line will I be able to block out the screaming | :01:18. | :01:28. | |
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crowd, to get the millions at stake? Make no mistake, there is | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
nowhere on earth quite like this place. This meeting of dreams, this | :01:38. | :01:46. | |
Royal Ascot. This is not just a sporting event, it's a culture. | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
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Will this be another big win? spectacular Frankel. And we have a | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
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It could be argued that already we have had the best Royal Ascot in | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
living memory. It's had absolutely everything. Just a few moments ago | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
the Royal Procession made its made down through the golden gates and | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
in the lead carriage has been all week in her Diamond Jubilee year, | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Her Majesty the Queen, alongside his Royal Highness the Duke of | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Edinburgh, deep in conversation with John Warren and with Toby | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Balding, a trainer of two Grand National winners, Gold Cup winner, | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
champion hurdle winner as well, his first time in the Royal Procession. | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
A huge honour and surprise for him to be in the lead carriage. The | :02:41. | :02:50. | |
Windsor greys leading the way. And the grandstand absolutely | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
packed. The crowd boosted this year by approximately 5,000 Australian | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
race-goers, some of whom have travelled over from Australia, | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
others based here in the UK. They have come to see their superstar, | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
Black Caviar. She could round off this week in send sensation tal -- | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
send takesal tile -- sensational style. The Royal Procession, a | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
sight that you will not see at any other sporting event. It kicks off | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
a high-class day of racing. As the Royal Procession happened, | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
the weather was absolutely fine. Almost as soon as the Queen | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
disappeared into the grandstand to make her way to the Royal Box, we | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
had a cloud burst, heavy rain. The wind has picked up, that wind seems | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
to have blown that shower of rain through. A lot of people have been | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
suffering badly from overnight flooding around the country and | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
luckily, here at Ascot, they've avoided the worst of the rain | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
because in many ways that is the one thing that could have damaged | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
the chances of Black Caviar today. If we have had torrential rain. All | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
eyes on her and all supporters from Australia, and most supporters from | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
Europe hoping that she can cement her position as the outstanding | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
sprinter in the world and arguably the fastest racehorse anyone has | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
ever seen. Her colours there of salmon and black spots carried on | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
banners around the course and indeed being echoed and reflected | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
on ties of Black Caviar supporters. Here the man on whom the pressure | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
lays, Luke Nolan who will ride Black Caviar. He has won on her 18 | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
times of her 21 wins, introducing himself to Johnny Murtagh who will | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
always be supportive. He walked the course a few times. And had a chat | :04:31. | :04:41. | |
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with the clerk of the course. this is 8.3, centre is 8.7. Tending | :04:42. | :04:51. | |
to suggest the centre is slightly quicker. You know,... It walks... | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
think it walks even. You are in the middle, same as before. You have | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
been drawn 15. Somewhere here. That's the man we will all be | :05:02. | :05:04. | |
watching. Myself and Willie Carson bidding you good afternoon and | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
welcome to coverage on BBC1 of the final day of Royal Ascot, 2012. The | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
big question, can anything beat Black Caviar? No. Not really. I | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
don't think so. She can beat herself in a way, because she is an | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
animal, very big, strong, very fast. She's put up fantastic times in | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
Australia, nothing's ever got close to her. She wins every race by | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
clear distance every time. She's run on possibly, not quite as soft | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
a ground as she could have, if this rain keeps coming here, and Ascot | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
is a stiff racecourse but still you would have to think that she is | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
unbeatable. And I know thousands of people in Australia are staying up | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
late to watch this, many gathering in Melbourne to watch the big | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
screen. She runs at 3.4 4.00pm our time, quart tore one in the morning | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
morning Melbourne time. They will all be hoping that she can do what | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
she as done in all her races in Australia, but like - she has to | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
travel overseas to prove to the rest of the world and take this | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
sport to another level, which I think she has done just by being | :06:17. | :06:26. | |
here, but it's a sensational day we What a week this has been. Starting | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
with the fabulous, phenomenonal Frankel and his 11-length win in | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
the Queen Anne. Frankie was back on flying form, winning the Gold Cup. | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
The Queen had a Royal winner, her 21st as Estimate took the Queen's | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Vase. During today we will be looking back at 61 years of BBC | :06:43. | :06:51. | |
television coverage of the Royal meeting as the BBC bows out. | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
In terms of fashion, it has been fabulous. Suzi Perry is in charge | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
for a final look at what everyone has been wearing and will be | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
talking to a celebrity chef. But the special on the menu today | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
is Black Caviar, the wonder from down under, Black Caviar unbeaten | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
in 21 starts is hot favourite for the Diamond Jubilee. | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
Four races for you live on BBC1 and then two on BBC interactive, not on | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
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Freeview, I am afraid. The Chesham Let's move on swiftly because the | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
runners have left the paddock for our firs race, the Chesham. Let's | :08:08. | :08:18. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 44 seconds | :08:18. | :09:02. | |
Stakes, a listed contest over seven furlongs and the runners are | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
arriving at the post. Here with the betting is John Parrott. Thank you, | :09:07. | :09:17. | |
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it's moved to -- Move To Strike the Back to 9-4. Back out to 5-2. But | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
it's Move To Strike clinging to favouritism at 2-1. This is the | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
race, the Chesham, that provided the Queen's last Royal Ascot winner | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
in 2008. Until Estimate took the Queen's Vase yesterday, which was a | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
wonderful moment. We could see the first win this week for your old | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
boss, Willie. They love this colt. Of course, this jockey, champion | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
jockey, Paul Hanagan, hasn't had a winner here at Royal Ascot, either. | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
It would be nice for this horse to win because we have had most other | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
things happen at Royal Ascot this week. But this horse who won very | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
convincingly at Leicester, he is a big horse. He is by Street Cry, he | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
is a lovely big type. A horse that will go on and we hope that he will | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
be a Guineas horse for next year. But Richard Hannon hasn't had a | :10:13. | :10:23. | |
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winner this week. This possibly one of his last chances of doing so. | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
He's got to draw of six, which is on the stands side. I would think | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
the stands side is going to be a little bit quicker than the far | :10:31. | :10:34. | |
side. It's had less use than the far side and I think he is drawn in | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
the right place here. Richard Hannon trains that one, who has won | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
this twice in the last four years. Jim Bolger has already had an | :10:40. | :10:50. | |
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exciting two-year-old colt win this week. He has Move To Strike. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
Irish really like this horse. He gave a very good impression when he | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
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won at Leopardstown. Mr Bolger, as we all know, brings his horses here | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
and if you leave them out in your calculations, that's at your own | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
peril, because he always brings horses over here that always run a | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
big race. Dawn Approach was by Approach -- New Approach, also sire | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
of Tha'ir. The Godolphin horses do seem to be coming back to some kind | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
of form. This horse started off modestly, started off at Ripon and | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
did that well. But he is up against real good sorts here today. | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
Obviously, the Godolphin have got a lot of well bred horses at home, so | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
he must be one of the better ones that they have. Indeed. They've | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
another runner as well, Lovely Pass who is also quietly fancied. The | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
Sixties being pushed forward there. Mick Channons had had a few | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
disappointments this week. Lovely to see him in the winners' | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
enclosure as well. The Sixties is a stallion, stands at a stud Mick is | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
very much involved with. That's a fantastic way of having a nibble of | :12:19. | :12:24. | |
grass! Down there to accompany Frege, Kieron Fallon riding. | :12:24. | :12:31. | |
Sixties has five runners in this race. All of them have won a race. | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
He is doing well. Come on, you are going to fall over! That's a good | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
trick. We are meant to be looking at the racehorses and Jalaa will be | :12:40. | :12:48. | |
one of the last few to go forward. Zanetto there with a sheepskin | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
noseband going forward. The last few going forward for the | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
first race. There is Frankie Dettori, what a moment for him on | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
Thursday winning the Gold Cup. He is riding high at the moment. He is | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
in the Royal blue of Godolphin for our first race on the final day of | :13:06. | :13:16. | |
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Royal Ascot 2012. Going forward now Lovely Pass. They run over seven | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
furlongs. Up the straight, a field of 14 two-year-olds for the Chesham. | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
Stand by, that's it. Ready, they're racing! | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
And away to a fair start on the near side Hillbilly Boy, one of the | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
first away. Zanetto is Thrupp in the early stages. Fighting too is | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
Move To Strike. Now gets a bit of cover in behind horses. The Sixties | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
goes on. The Sixties the early leader, from up in second place on | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
the near side Frege, just behind them Zanetto, fighting for his head | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
on the near side, followed further back by Cruck Realta with yellow | :13:52. | :13:59. | |
cap. They're followed by Jalaa. On the near side Pasaka Boy Pasaka Boy, | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
followed further back by Lovely Pass, who is very wide with a white | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
cap. Behind horses is Move To Strike, Hillbilly Boy on the near | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
side. Being tracked all the while by Downright Dizzie. Move To Strike | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
has dropped right back to about six or seven lengths off the pace. They | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
race now towards the course proper. The leader is The Sixties, from in | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
second Frege, followed in third by Cruck Realta. Behind them being | :14:24. | :14:30. | |
pulled on for an effort now is at this stage Chilworth Icon. Coming | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
into it too is Lovely Pass under pressure. Move To Strike is running | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
on pourfully. They run up with a furlong and a half. On the far side | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
Lovely Pass takes it up, from in the centre Cruck Realta. In the | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
centre coming there Tha'ir. Tha'ir for Godolphin. The first set of the | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
Godolphin Royal blue sprints into the lead now. It's Tha'ir, Frankie | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
Dettori lengthening well and coming away. Tha'ir goes on to win the | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
Chesham in grand style. Cruck Realta in second. Third is Lovely | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
Pass. A gap then and behind them is Move To Strike, followed next in | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
the field then by The Sixties, well back is Frege, Jalaa not sighted. | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
They were followed then by Pasaka Boy, well back in the field. Effie | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
B the last to finish. Tha'ir, another winner for Godolphin. | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
A memorable week for them. They won the Gold Cup and a 9-2 winner of | :15:23. | :15:33. | |
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fourth, Move To Strike could not side, followed by Downright Dizzie. | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
St Paul De Vence could not get into it. At the tail of the field was | :16:07. | :16:15. | |
Effie B. The winner of the Chesham Stakes is Tha'ir, ridden by Frankie | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
Dettori, the third winner at this royal meeting for the first season | :16:23. | :16:32. | |
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stallion New Approach. Let's check the distances. 2.25 lengths and a | :16:36. | :16:45. | |
neck. But this win it, Tha'ir, won very well at Ripon recently, having | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
been the lesser fancied of a couple of runners they had in the race, | :16:50. | :16:59. | |
came home well clear on that occasion. And the horse that he | :16:59. | :17:09. | |
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beat that night went on to win this week. Side been so raw, a happy man. | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
-- Saeed Bin Suroor. And Frankie Dettori, first win of the day. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
CLARE BALDING: Frankie is a man for the big occasion. The big crowd | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
seems to bring out the best in him. He had gone through weeks without a | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
winner anywhere until he came back to win the Gold Cup on Colour | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
Vision. But that was a very decisive win on Tha'ir. The team | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
will be very decisive -- excited about this horse for next year. It | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
gives them hope through the winter, looking ahead to the big races next | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
year. And the breeding world is buzzing about the stallion New | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
Approach. WILLIE CARSON: And of course, New | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
Approach is by Galileo, the best stallion we had in many, many years. | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
Obviously, the stable did not see too much of him at home. Frankie | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
went very fast up front. He did not go that fast, because there was a | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
lot of horses pulling early. This horse, he obviously settles very | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
easily. Of course, New Approach, he won the Derby. And this horse | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
possibly will only get to a mile. At this stage in his career, you | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
would have to say, he would only be a miler, unless he proves | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
differently. But a very happy jockey, he always gives plenty of | :18:49. | :18:55. | |
people a lot of pleasure in how he behaves after he wins. He is very | :18:55. | :19:05. | |
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good at that. A big smile on his face. Yes! I told you so! Frankie | :19:09. | :19:15. | |
Dettori, of all of the jockeys with a licence at the present time, is | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
top of the list. Lester Piggott way out in front in terms of overall | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
statistics. But Frankie, the man of the afternoon so far. You will get | :19:26. | :19:36. | |
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a flying dismount as well, because one of the day. | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
JIM MCGRATH: It is often underestimated just what a talented | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
jockey he is, because he is such a flamboyant personality, such a | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
visible face of racing. He does such a great PR job for the entire | :20:02. | :20:12. | |
sport. Sheikh Mohammed not here in the winning party. He will be tuned | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
in to that result, no doubt. Frankie, looking for the scales so | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
that he can step on, and he will be looking to make 9 stone 3lb, which | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
he should be able to do without any bother whatsoever. I was just | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
saying, it is often underestimated just how brilliant a rider, a | :20:37. | :20:44. | |
sportsman, he is. Such balance, such style on a horse. He is an | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
extremely talented jockey. I think many people just starting to | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
appreciate that we do need him in the game, and it is great to see | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
him back in the winner's area. Here's Brit Prasad in the winner's | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
area. I am joined by the Godolphin racing manager. It has been an | :21:09. | :21:17. | |
excellent week. Fantastic. Brilliant first season stallion New | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Approach as well. All three have turned up, and all three have | :21:22. | :21:29. | |
delivered. Really excited for the team. We came here hoping we would | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
do well, but we were really pleased about this one. Frankie, a great | :21:34. | :21:43. | |
way to start the day. Yes. The further he went, the better he was. | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
New Approach, he has had a fantastic week. Nice little two- | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
year-old for the future. The way he stuck his head down, that was a | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
good sign. Yes, he is on the small side, but he has got a good engine, | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
a brilliant attitude. I was very impressed. What about Italy against | :22:02. | :22:10. | |
England? It's the colour! Come on, Azzurri! I'm not sure about that. | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
Simon, what will be the plan for Tha'ir? Maybe he will go to | :22:16. | :22:24. | |
Goodwood, we will see. Well done. Thank you very much. Let's have a | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
look at the start and finish of this Chesham Stakes. If you want to | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
watch the two major contenders, there is the winner, from stall 7. | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
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Not a great start for Sylvester D'Souza's horse. Sylvester | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
D'Souza's horse was a bit slowly away. Yes, there was a bit of a | :22:53. | :22:58. | |
knock-on effect. I had a quick word with Martin Harley. And we saw it | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
only around, it was not an ideal start. Right in the centre, in the | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
white jacket, the horse chucking its head around. He has really | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
fought Kevin Manning in the early part of the race. He has, and he | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
has not done himself any favours. But Kevin Manning said, no excuses, | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
to be honest. That was the early part of the race. Now, let's have a | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
look at the closing stages. The winner is just making its challenge | :23:28. | :23:38. | |
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year. Sylvester D'Souza has got this filly into a fair position. | :23:39. | :23:44. | |
Surely, having used up so much energy trying to go fast at the | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
beginning of the race, it must have had an effect. No doubt about it. | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
The other jockeys have also said, they did not go that quick early on. | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
This was the time you wanted your energy to be used, and Frankie's | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
horse was impressive. He really was striding out well in the closing | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
stages. This was not exactly the same distance as the Diamond | :24:06. | :24:10. | |
Jubilee later one, but what do you think about the draw, particularly | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
with Black Caviar in mind, because she will be in 15, on the right of | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
that picture. It was interesting, the way they all seem -- seemed to | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
congregate in the middle of the track. Well, we will see later on. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
But that's the first race over and done with, a good win for the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
Godolphin horse. Looks like one to follow. | :24:31. | :24:41. | |
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JOHN PARROTT: Yes, so, the winner of the Chesham Stakes, Tha'ir. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
And the presentation for the Chesham Stakes being made by the | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
Chesham Stakes being made by the comedian Michael McIntyre. Sheikh | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Mohammed and Princess Haya not here today, they are watching at home on | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
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television. Great to see Michael Macintyre here. We can look again | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
at the low finishing drive of Frankie Dettori, and also this | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
horse, whose running style is basically to go no to the ground. | :25:27. | :25:32. | |
Saeed Bin Suroor, a fantastic boost for him this week. They encourage | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
competition between their trainers inside the team, and between the | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
jockeys as well. And Frankie has had a fair bit of pressure on him | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
this year, and it is just great to see him doing the flying dismounts | :25:45. | :25:50. | |
and celebrating success. And he is just usually important to the | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
British racing game. So, a great start to a great afternoon, which | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
we hope will culminate with victory for Black Caviar. We will be | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
talking about her plenty before the Diamond Jubilee Stakes. But let's | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
say good afternoon for the first time today to Suzi Perry. Yes, we | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
have seen some beautiful fashions here this week. Joining me, Jane, | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
milliner to the stars. What is on trend regarding the hats? We have | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
got quite a lot of discs this year. With modern hairstyles, it is | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
really easy, you can put your long hair over the top. Also quite a lot | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
of classic styles, sweeping across the face, and lots of little | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
cocktail hats. That's now that the dress code has changed. Like the | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
hat that you're wearing today. Lots of flowers as well. Thank you very | :26:46. | :26:54. | |
much. Have a good day. 170,000 bottles of champagne being served | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
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here at Royal Ascot, and this is the man who's doing the catering. | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
We are at Royal Ascot, so we have pushed the boat out. And you have | :27:12. | :27:22. | |
:27:22. | :27:22. | ||
got a Michelin star now. Yes. Incredible. I know you have got a | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
couple of restaurants down in Folkestone. Tell us what you have | :27:26. | :27:31. | |
made specifically for Royal Ascot. Can I take my hat off first? I feel | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
more comfortable without this silly hat. I have done a few dishes | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
across the board. They have gone across all of the restaurants. This | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
is fresh Folkestone crab, which we have a hand picked, mixed with a | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
bit of paste, to give it a Moroccan feel, a little bit spicy. Can I | :27:50. | :27:58. | |
have a taste? Go for it. And we have got some salt and pepper squid, | :27:58. | :28:03. | |
which is a really big seller at the restaurant. It has got Lyon, chilli, | :28:03. | :28:09. | |
coriander, soy sauce. This is one of your signature dishes, isn't it? | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
It is, but I hate the word signature dish, because the | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
customers have to give you that accolade in the first place. So | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
that means it is a dish that we can never take it off the menu now. But | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
yes, it is a signature dish. And this one here, I would love to lie | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
to you, and say that I designed this specifically for Royal Ascot. | :28:33. | :28:37. | |
this specifically for Royal Ascot. This is a cold chocolate and sea | :28:37. | :28:46. | |
buckthorn dish. Sea buckthorn is a berry which is foraged for in | :28:46. | :28:54. | |
certain areas. It is a very sharp tasting Berry. When I put this on | :28:54. | :28:59. | |
the menu at my restaurant, it was because it was a locally foraged | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
desert, and I wanted to introduce something different. So, I thought | :29:02. | :29:09. | |
I would put it on the menu here at Ascot. Somebody did some Google | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
research and found out that actually, ancient Greeks used to | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
graze their racehorses on sea buckthorn pastures, and right | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
before the race, they would feed them with the berries, which are | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
very high in vitamin C. And actually, the ancient Greek word | :29:26. | :29:34. | |
for Sea buckthorn is Glittering Horse. Absolutely wonderful. | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
Wondering if Black Caviar, which is what a day is all about, has had | :29:38. | :29:44. | |
any sea buckthorn berries this morning?! This is not real caviar, | :29:44. | :29:54. | |
:29:54. | :30:02. | ||
but what shall we do?! Shall we try wearing today and beautiful, | :30:02. | :30:06. | |
beautiful classic clothes. That was classic. There is the Black Caviar | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
colours, the salmon pink and black. Clearly a supporter. We can have it | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
confirmed you will see lots of salmon and black today. Also, lots | :30:14. | :30:20. | |
of pale beige and cream colours. Hats need good hat pins as well in | :30:20. | :30:24. | |
this wind. You need to be fairly adaptable because the big rain | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
storm we had, you need to be able to run, so shoes you can run in | :30:28. | :30:33. | |
help. The sculpture there in the background. We have a really, big | :30:33. | :30:40. | |
international crowd here on the final day of Royal Ascot. | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
Hello! Yes, we see you. How much rain do these hats take before they | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
start crumbling? Do the hats take? I try not to find out F you have | :30:50. | :30:53. | |
feathers you have a problem because they can really damage them quickly. | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
But, you know, just go under cover. You will be all right in the rain. | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
I get all the channels on this, it's useful. Let's take you through | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
the story of the week, as we have been saying, and we were talking | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
about this, probably the best Royal Ascot we can remember. It is, | :31:07. | :31:17. | |
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without doubt, the pest Royal Ascot performance! The superb, | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
spectacular Frankel. This is the best racehorse that you have ever | :31:31. | :31:40. | |
seen, I have ever seen, that anybody will ever see. It's Little | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
Bridge! Famous Hong Kong win. most magnificent sporting venue in | :31:45. | :31:53. | |
Europe. Up towards the line, it's Most Improved who gets the money in | :31:53. | :32:00. | |
the St James Palace Stakes. Now So You Think goes on to win the Prince | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
of Wales Stakes. This is a great day's racing, a great day of sport, | :32:05. | :32:12. | |
a great day of fashion. Racing in the Gold Cup. It's Opinion Poll now | :32:12. | :32:18. | |
pouncing. The two Godolphin runners fighting it out. It was great, you | :32:18. | :32:24. | |
know, this was my best chance of the week. I am glad this came up. | :32:24. | :32:30. | |
They're set. Off and running. Fallen For You is racing away here. | :32:30. | :32:37. | |
Goes on to win it for William Buick. Today is one of those days. | :32:37. | :32:42. | |
could have a Royal winner. There will be plenty of money for the | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
Queen's horse. We have a Royal winner, hats off to the Queen as | :32:45. | :32:49. | |
Estimate goes up to the line to win by five lengths. The whole country | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
will have appreciated this victory for Her Majesty. We have got the | :32:54. | :33:03. | |
most marvellous horses in the world and I mean the world. | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
The question mark doesn't have to be too big, she is a hot favourite, | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
Black Caviar. Let's concentrate on stamina and class, other than speed | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
and class. The Hardwicke Stakes stakes, and here is the line-up | :33:15. | :33:18. | |
with Jim McGrath. Talking about Australia and about | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
Melbourne, in particular, we have a Melbourne Cup winner in this race | :33:22. | :33:32. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 44 seconds | :33:32. | :34:14. | |
and a Melbourne Cup runner-up. Hardwicke Stakes stakes, hugely | :34:14. | :34:24. | |
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can't wait for Black Caviar, first bet struck behind me �100,000 at 1- | :34:31. | :34:36. | |
5 to win �20,000. I am in front of the stands now. | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
This is the spot where a lot of people are hoping Black Caviar's | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
going to come thundering up the track. She's coming from stall 15. | :34:42. | :34:45. | |
If she goes as straight line from the six furlong start this is where | :34:45. | :34:55. | |
she will end up finishing. I spoke to the Leona. They've changed the | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
going officially to good. Richard Hughes who came out from the stall | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
next in stall 16, he said it's good ground. No excuses for Black Caviar | :35:05. | :35:11. | |
Black Caviar! Nothing is ever a certainty in | :35:11. | :35:17. | |
racing, that's why we run the races because you can't write it down on | :35:17. | :35:21. | |
paper beforehand. We have an Australian connection in this race, | :35:21. | :35:29. | |
because this horse Dunaden won the Melbourne Cup. Willie, I don't know | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
whether you stayed up to watch this live in the early hours, it was one | :35:33. | :35:36. | |
of the best finishes you have ever seen. It was close. Exactly. | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
Doesn't in the yellow, -- Dunaden in the yellow. This is a two-mile | :35:42. | :35:47. | |
race. They do sprint home here in the Melbourne Cup. 300 metre mark | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
there and Dunaden looks as though he is going to get caught there by | :35:51. | :35:58. | |
Red Cadeaux. Red Cadeaux, I thought got his head in front, but Dunaden | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
really found a bit for the stick there and got his head in front. It | :36:02. | :36:08. | |
was close. It was an absolute bob of the head and the cameraman | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
thought Red Cadeaux had won, when the photo finish came up. It's a | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
half a nostril. That's so close. Nearly a dead heat. Dunaden went on | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
to win the Hong Kong Vase in his final start of the year. He is a | :36:22. | :36:32. | |
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classy, well travelled horse. They are the biggest investors in | :36:36. | :36:46. | |
:36:46. | :36:47. | ||
sport and racing in this country right now, thanks to Kipco who | :36:47. | :36:52. | |
sponsor series. Very serious orders going on, isn't there? In Hong Kong | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
when he won his last race he showed a lot more turn of foot than he did | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
there in the Melbourne Cup. He really rattled home in Hong Kong. | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
Possibly he is a horse that likes fast ground, so maybe today the | :37:05. | :37:10. | |
ground will be just a little bit on easy side for him. Dunaden and Red | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
Cadeaux both six-year-olds. If they're to be vulnerable it may be | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
from one of the many four-year-olds in the race, there are a few of | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
them. The most promising of whom is Aiken, who is unbeaten now in six | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
starts, actually was beaten first time out but has won six in a row | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
and John Gosden and William Buick are very much the team to be with | :37:30. | :37:37. | |
this week. They had three - and this colt he won really | :37:37. | :37:43. | |
impressively last time. French Derby day. He made the running and | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
looked as though he was going to get swallowed up at the two but | :37:47. | :37:53. | |
battled away and he was going away at the finish. Let's go back to | :37:53. | :37:58. | |
Dunaden, because the Sheikh's racing manager is with Rishi now. | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
Yes, he is. He is overseeing instructions just given to the | :38:03. | :38:08. | |
rider. What's been said? Confidence in that? I think there's got to and | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
bit of confidence. We can't use the ground as an excuse. The horse | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
looks incredible I think walking around the paddock and stiff gallop | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
will suit him well, which he didn't get in France last time. We got to | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
give it a best shot. Fingers crossed we get a result this week. | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
So far failed to produce a winner for them, so hopefully today. | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
difficulty for people wanting to back Dunaden is seeing the two | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
performances at the end of last year in Hong Kong and Australia and | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
the two performances this season saying he hasn't done that yet. Is | :38:42. | :38:46. | |
he back to what he did at the end of last season? I think he is | :38:46. | :38:53. | |
better than he was last season, to be honest. We have a long plan, | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
which is to go for the Arc if we possibly can. Today we will learn | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
whether he is good enough or whether we need to be going back to | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
Australia. Obviously we would love to go to Australia swl and the | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
Sheikh had the time of his life there, as did I. You can completely | :39:09. | :39:14. | |
ignore his first two runs, because the first time he needed a run | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
badly and we all knew that. The second time the race couldn't have | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
been run to suit him worse. Absolutely no gallop. Then he came | :39:22. | :39:26. | |
with a storming run but he was too far back to be able to use it. | :39:26. | :39:30. | |
Conditions today should be right up his street. We look forward to | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
seeing how he gets on, thank you. Good luck. Thank you. | :39:36. | :39:42. | |
Still to be mounted is Sea Moon. Ryan Moore is riding him. He was | :39:42. | :39:51. | |
very impressive when running away with - had trouble in running, | :39:51. | :39:58. | |
didn't get the greatest ride, and was second to St Nicholas Abbey. | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
That was a fabulous performance. That was a very good performance. | :40:01. | :40:04. | |
Travelling all the way over to America and finishing second. It | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
was a very good run for him that day. He is a well travelled horse | :40:08. | :40:14. | |
this. He had a little bit of a problem with stalls at one stage | :40:14. | :40:20. | |
but seems to have got over that now and he is a very talented colt. | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
They are - this is a handsome line- up. That's a really good looking | :40:24. | :40:29. | |
horse. You saw Dunaden, he looks well. Memphis Tennessee looked | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
absolutely marvellous. We will look at him in a moment. Let's talk | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
about Red Cadeaux, the horse who nearly won the Melbourne Cup and he | :40:35. | :40:41. | |
has been just a grand, grand flag- bearer for the yard of Ed Dunlop. | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
Absolutely right, Clare. He has been superb, Red Cadeaux. He's got | :40:45. | :40:52. | |
better and better. Really since he started in Melbourne really. He's | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
done nothing wrong. He deserves to be here, but it's very tough. | :40:55. | :41:00. | |
rare that the Hardwicke attracts the first and second in the | :41:00. | :41:03. | |
Melbourne Cup. What chance have you got with Dunaden this afternoon? | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
am sure we are probably happy with how our season has gone so far. | :41:07. | :41:10. | |
There were circumstances in the last race for Dunaden, they went | :41:10. | :41:16. | |
slowly. He's beaten us twice, maybe it's our ground maybe more than | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
hopbg -- Hong Kong was. It's going to be hard. I can't remember a | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
Hardwicke quite as competitive as this in the last few seasons. | :41:24. | :41:30. | |
removed the penalty for a Group 1 win sore that -- winner so that | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
makes a big difference. This is a a Group 1 race with horses, but in | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
Group 2. It's exciting. We run a filly for the first time, see how | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
that goes as well. Good luck. Willie, you wanted to have a word | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
about the jockey there. McLoughlin very much involved with | :41:49. | :41:56. | |
this horse, he gets on him some days, but today - this lad, he's | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
made this horse and he does get the ride every now and again and when | :42:00. | :42:06. | |
he goes to Australia he goes down there with him and rides him, he is | :42:06. | :42:10. | |
instrumental in the success of this horse, Tom. I am glad to see that | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
Tom has got the ride on him today and I hope everything goes well for | :42:13. | :42:19. | |
him. We wish them well with Red Cadeaux. | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
The runners are at the start. A chance to look at the leading | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
jockeys and trainers so far this week. We mentioned it already, but | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
the hat trick for William Buick and John Gosden yesterday took both on | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
to four winners and puts William in a strong position to win the | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
leading jockey award for the first time in his life. He is one clear | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
at the moment of Ryan Moore. Frankie Dettori with two now. A | :42:41. | :42:51. | |
:42:51. | :42:53. | ||
host of jockeys on one. John Gosden looks uncatchable at the top of the | :42:54. | :42:59. | |
trainers leading award. It's still possible, Clare. Possible, but as | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
you say you fancied Memphis Tennessee in this for Aidan O'Brien | :43:02. | :43:07. | |
and he has good runners later in the day. Sir Henry Cecil has had a | :43:07. | :43:16. | |
terrific week. There is William, just making final | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
- putting on the rug on to this big horse. He looks as though he needs | :43:20. | :43:26. | |
it, he is half-asleep! He ran against Dunaden last time and had | :43:26. | :43:33. | |
him back in third, but he is 7lbs worse because of the way the | :43:33. | :43:39. | |
weights work for this. They're all on levels. Except for the filly | :43:39. | :43:42. | |
Testosterone. If we can we will look at Memphis Tennessee because | :43:42. | :43:52. | |
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Willie, you you mentioned him a couple of times. | :43:53. | :43:58. | |
He looks beautiful. He looks really well muscled up. He looks as though | :43:58. | :44:04. | |
he is ready to run the race of his life. Look at the length of that | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
lad's legs. 6ft, the jockey. Marvellous how he folds himself | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
away when they're in the gallop position. It's marvellous. Joseph | :44:13. | :44:17. | |
O'Brien, we have seen him this season mature into his role as | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
balance hroeu Doyle's -- Ballydoyle's number one choice and | :44:21. | :44:31. | |
his father has won this race in the last four years. Doesn't in yellow. | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
-- Dunaden in yellow. We will look at the betting market. John, who | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
are punters going for? It's so competitive, they don't know | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
themselves. There's been money for Aiken now. Dunaden was the one that | :44:43. | :44:53. | |
:44:53. | :44:53. | ||
they were backing eachway. Sea Moon hanging on to favouritism. | :44:53. | :45:00. | |
You won't miss these colours. This is Jakkalberry, trained by Marco | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
Botti. He was a Group 1 winner in Italy. | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
Six years old now. Wears a tongue tie. He goes into the stalls | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
sweetly. Aiken has gone forward as well. Memphis Tennessee moving | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
forward. Willie, what do you think will happen in this race? Well, | :45:17. | :45:21. | |
it's a very good race. There's a lot of talented colts in this. Sea | :45:21. | :45:29. | |
Moon is obviously on song. Michael stout having a winner yesterday. So | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
it's going to be a very sort of intriguing race because there is at | :45:33. | :45:43. | |
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least five colts in here you could he gets his chance on Black Caviar. | :45:53. | :46:00. | |
Over to you, Jim McGrath. JIM MCGRATH: Christophe Lemaire, on | :46:00. | :46:07. | |
his Melbourne Cup winner. And they are off. Dunaden in the centre was | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
one of the first away. On the inside, Sea Moon, and also going | :46:12. | :46:19. | |
fast, Aiken. Widest of all is Testosterone. Looking over Johnny | :46:19. | :46:26. | |
Murtagh to see if he can get closer to the rail. Up there as well is | :46:26. | :46:36. | |
:46:36. | :46:56. | ||
Memphis Tennessee. Dowsing is in towards the inside rail. Holding | :46:56. | :47:06. | |
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the rail, Fiorente. On the inside, Jakkalberry. On the outside, Sea | :47:08. | :47:18. | |
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Moon. Hunter's Light has gone wide. In behind horses, about third-last, | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
is Red Cadeaux. Last is Calico Cat. Racing uphill now. On the inside | :47:25. | :47:31. | |
his Testosterone, by half-a-length, to Memphis Tennessee. Out very wide | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
is Quest For Peace, and in behind them, in the centre, battling away, | :47:35. | :47:42. | |
is Dunaden. Aiken has made a fast move. Moving up to join the leader | :47:42. | :47:49. | |
now. It is Testosterone, half a length clear, from Aiken, who has | :47:49. | :47:57. | |
come round the outside to challenge. Hunter's Light, poised. Dunaden has | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
gone right out the back door. Into the home straight, two furlongs to | :48:00. | :48:05. | |
go. Aiken is the first to strike for home, he has gone three in | :48:05. | :48:15. | |
:48:15. | :48:19. | ||
front. But here comes Sea Moon. Red Cadeaux battling on. But Sea Moon, | :48:19. | :48:25. | |
four in front. 100 yards to go. It is all Sea Moon! Coming up towards | :48:25. | :48:35. | |
:48:35. | :48:37. | ||
the line, Sea Moon is going to win the Hardwicke. In second, Dunaden. | :48:37. | :48:47. | |
:48:47. | :49:00. | ||
number 12, Sea Moon, ridden by Ryan Moore. And didn't he win? Have a | :49:00. | :49:06. | |
look at him! He had it won with that burst of speed inside the | :49:06. | :49:12. | |
furlong and a half. Dunaden looked gone coming around the turn but has | :49:12. | :49:18. | |
come again. The stamina kicked in, and he beat his old foe, Red | :49:18. | :49:28. | |
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Cadeaux. In fourth is Aiken, fifth, Jakkalberry. Fiorente was next. And | :49:31. | :49:40. | |
then a gap to Hunter's Light. Then, Allied Powers. Then another gap to | :49:40. | :49:47. | |
Calico Cat, who ran on from last, but was a long way from the winner. | :49:47. | :49:57. | |
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Quest For Peace, Kieren Fallon, right out the back. So, too, the | :49:59. | :50:09. | |
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Michael Stoute, ever eager for Carlton House to win on the first | :50:21. | :50:25. | |
day, but then he came up with a winner for the Queen yesterday, and | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
now a double today. There is the Wonder from Down Under, Black | :50:31. | :50:40. | |
Caviar. 21 wins out of 21. Doesn't she look relaxed. She doesn't know | :50:40. | :50:46. | |
that the nation awaits, I'm sure. She looks cool and calm. The | :50:46. | :50:53. | |
traffic is now being stopped in the Ascot high street, on both sides. | :50:53. | :51:02. | |
Luke Nolen just interested to see how the great mare looked, and she | :51:02. | :51:10. | |
looked fantastic. So, Sea Moon, the winner of the Hardwicke Stakes. | :51:10. | :51:17. | |
CLARE BALDING: This horse is going to win a lot of good races this | :51:17. | :51:23. | |
year, because he has this engine, and he can just suddenly put a race | :51:23. | :51:28. | |
to bed. Dunaden in particular made up an awful lot of ground to finish | :51:28. | :51:33. | |
second. But Ryan Moore was in too full Drive here on this source. | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
There was no picking him back. Michael Stoute's yard, which has | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
been pretty sleepy this season, has come a wake in the last couple of | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
days, yesterday winning for the Queen, and now getting another | :51:44. | :51:52. | |
winner. WILLIE CARSON: This was a very, | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
very competitive Hardwick. Ryan Moore, when he got into the | :51:55. | :52:02. | |
straight, and everybody found out, he asked the horse for a full | :52:02. | :52:06. | |
effort, and he gave it to him. He went a long way clear. Just getting | :52:06. | :52:12. | |
a little bit tired towards the end, when Dunaden's stamina kicked in. | :52:12. | :52:17. | |
That puts Ryan Moore in front of William Buick. He has had one more | :52:17. | :52:23. | |
third place, so he goes into the leader's position in the Qipco | :52:23. | :52:27. | |
Leading Jockey award. He took the award last year, in the very last | :52:27. | :52:37. | |
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race, and he is in front with four so unlucky in many respects in the | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
St Leger last year, Sea Moon. He went to America and was runner-up | :52:46. | :52:56. | |
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in the Breeders' Cup Turf. But now he is just starting to realise some | :52:56. | :53:00. | |
of that potential which he showed earlier in the campaign up at York. | :53:00. | :53:06. | |
Sir Michael Stoute on the left. Ryan Moore just telling Sir Michael | :53:06. | :53:11. | |
exactly what sort of a run he had during the race. And we have the | :53:11. | :53:20. | |
full details now. Over to John. JOHN PARROTT: Well, the hugely | :53:20. | :53:30. | |
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impressive Sea Moon, has come on a bundle since Goodwood. In the pre- | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
parade ring now with Black Caviar. The amount of people here just | :53:35. | :53:43. | |
taking photographs, a memory to last forever. I saw her about 10 | :53:43. | :53:49. | |
days ago at Newmarket, and her coat looks much better today than it did | :53:49. | :53:55. | |
36 hours after she landed on the plane. She looks in great nick, I | :53:55. | :54:03. | |
cannot find a negative about her, she looks outstanding. | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
CLARE BALDING: She is known as Nellie at home and by those who | :54:07. | :54:11. | |
look after her. The name of Black Caviar are is what she races under. | :54:11. | :54:17. | |
It is amazing how many great racehorses have great names as well. | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
It is a fantastic sight. Willie, you were commenting on her power, | :54:21. | :54:27. | |
the way she walks. WILLIE CARSON: Absolutely. You can | :54:27. | :54:32. | |
see how she over-tracks. Her hind feet, if you imagine she makes a | :54:32. | :54:38. | |
mark where her front feet go down, the hind legs go further than that, | :54:38. | :54:44. | |
which is called over-trekking. She has got a lot of power, and you can | :54:44. | :54:50. | |
see the way she swaggers. She has got a lovely swagger. Luke Nolen | :54:50. | :54:55. | |
standing on the scales, to check his weight of 9 stone 1. Frankie | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
Dettori having a chat with him. is trying to read him up, a bit of | :55:00. | :55:08. | |
sledging going on. He is not a! The trainer of this mare, this is a | :55:08. | :55:15. | |
huge moment for him. They want to blitz the rest away. We could not | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
get an interview from him this morning, I think he was too nervous. | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
He has got too much going on in that head of his. We have got an | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
interview now with the winner of the Hardwicke, Sir Michael Stoute. | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
Sir Michael, your smile tells the story. Yes, delighted with that | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
performance. There was mitigation at Goodwood, and told me he got a | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
bit lazy at home as well. But he has settled nicely and picked up so | :55:41. | :55:45. | |
well. I was thrilled with him today. What about the people that | :55:45. | :55:52. | |
questioned his resolution? Have they? Yes, they said, is he as good | :55:52. | :56:02. | |
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as we hoped he would be? Listen, I was disappointed at certain times | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
in previous races, but Ryan Moore said, he will never go like that | :56:07. | :56:14. | |
again. How good could he be? He wasn't bad today. Well, yes, that's | :56:14. | :56:19. | |
not a bad sign. Ryan Moore, you have ridden some good ones, that | :56:19. | :56:22. | |
looked a tough race to pick the winner before the start. Yes, I | :56:22. | :56:26. | |
thought he might have his work cut out today, but he travelled really | :56:26. | :56:31. | |
smoothly. He picked up really well. I could not be more pleased with | :56:31. | :56:36. | |
the original. He has only had seven runs, so he could be even better. | :56:36. | :56:41. | |
Yes, the trainer has been very patient! That is all you can ask | :56:41. | :56:50. | |
for on a big stage like this. Yes, we're delighted. All of the horses | :56:50. | :56:57. | |
have gone very well. Today was a very good performance. Very well | :56:57. | :57:06. | |
done. And so here we go into full overdrive build up to the Diamond | :57:06. | :57:08. | |
Jubilee Stakes, a race which has improved so much in quality over | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
the years, an awful lot of that quality coming from Australia. It | :57:12. | :57:14. | |
quality coming from Australia. It does seem that generally speaking, | :57:14. | :57:17. | |
Australian sprinters are quicker out of the gates, and they keep | :57:17. | :57:22. | |
going faster than ours. Well, you have got about six months | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
difference in the age of course. But you have got the sun over there, | :57:25. | :57:28. | |
they always seem to be bigger and stronger than our sprinters. Look | :57:28. | :57:37. | |
at the size of her. We know what weight she is, what is it, 545 | :57:37. | :57:43. | |
kilos. She is more than that. Interestingly, if you keep the | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
camera out wide, you can see she has got protective covers on her | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
front feet because of that over- stride that Willie was talking | :57:51. | :57:58. | |
about. They are pieces of rubber, you put them over the boots in case | :57:58. | :58:08. | |
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she catches a shoe. You can see her hind legs going past when she puts | :58:11. | :58:17. | |
her front legs. Everybody getting pictures of her as she goes by. It | :58:17. | :58:23. | |
must be amazing down there. RISHI PERSAD: I have never in my | :58:23. | :58:28. | |
entire time in racing seen so many people trying to get a photograph | :58:28. | :58:32. | |
of originals. Everybody has got their telephones out, taking photos | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
of Black Caviar. The lad leading her around, he has just been | :58:36. | :58:42. | |
chatting all the way, whispering in her area. Obviously saying things | :58:42. | :58:45. | |
that she is accustomed to hearing, but it is helping to keep her | :58:45. | :58:49. | |
extremely calm. She looks in great shape, but I cannot get over the | :58:49. | :58:52. | |
number of people who are here just to capture a photograph of Black | :58:52. | :59:02. | |
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JIM MCGRATH: So, there she is. She is relaxed, far more relaxed I | :59:07. | :59:11. | |
would say them Connections and those associated with her. This is | :59:11. | :59:16. | |
the big moment. It has been building for months, for weeks. And | :59:16. | :59:24. | |
the big test is only minutes away. And that's in the Diamond Jubilee | :59:24. | :59:30. | |
Stakes, over six furlongs. Let's check the runners and riders. We | :59:30. | :59:40. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 44 seconds | :59:40. | :00:31. | |
have a total of 14. And here they trying their pest. Trying to beat | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Black Caviar, but all of these people down here at the pre-parade | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
ring trying to get a glimpse of this super mare and journalists who | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
will be writing it tpoup ever The Racing Post tomorrow. We have | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Australian news crews here, and actually - they sold the rights to | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
be able to cover her inside her yard in Newmarket, such was the | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
protective wall around her, but Jim McGrath broke through and this is | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
his take on Black Caviar. There's never been a sporting icon | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
like her in Australia, certainly not in the last 80 years since the | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
1930 Melbourne Cup. Black Caviar is going for her 22nd consecutive win. | :01:16. | :01:22. | |
Black Caviar, the equine superstar of the world! | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Does it surprise you this mare is a sporting icon in Australia? It's | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
amazing the amount of interest she's created. It's unprecedented. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
Even at sporting circles, she is captured the imagination of the | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
public. They'll draw her, we have never had that before, to be part | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
of it is - it's amazing, yeah. Institutions like the Financial | :01:55. | :02:03. | |
Review are doing stories on her, it's unher althoughed and it's a -- | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
unher alded. Do you feel more pressure every time she goes out? | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
would be lying if I don't feel pressure to keep this record in | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
tact. You know, if she did come about tasting defeat, people would | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
say greedy BLEEP he's gone too far, this or that. I am very mindful of | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
that. They will be the toets of Royal -- toast of Royal Ascot. | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
She's go to go over there and prove it. What about her that makes her | :02:34. | :02:40. | |
so special? I wish I knew. I wish I could nail it down. I wouldn't be | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
working for a living. She can switch off. She will see the back | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
of the field, run unbelievable sections. She has an unbelievable | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
turn of foot after travelling so fast. She She doesn't go as hard or | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
fast as other horses but her movement allows her to cover more | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
ground.Lets quite staggering how she gets the job done. She's | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
hulking, I don't know if that's the word, but that comes to mind. She's | :03:08. | :03:16. | |
bigger than most colts. She doesn't look as big as what she actually is. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
What is she like mentally? She's learned to handle everything that's | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
been thrown at her. She likes her down time. On the whole, for a | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
horse that gets poked and and proded as much as her, she has an | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
underbelievable temperament. They will look at her and think she's | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
half-asleep, to us a that's a good sign. Reading between the lines it | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
seems you are getting hacked off with people comparing her to | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
Frankel. I think probably belittling, not only her, probably | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
both horses. Why do we need this comparison? He is a great horse. | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
He's done everything asked of him, as she has. I find it surprising at | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
times his rating can continue to rise beating same horses under same | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
conditions, where hers can't. That's staggering. These men are | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
smarter than I, so, you know, that's why they get the big dollars. | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
How fast do you think this mare can go? Is she something that's going | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
to break records? Well, we have never gone out to do that within a | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
career, mindful she has sustained injuries throughout her career but | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
I can assure you you she's often gone faster at home on training | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
tracks and gallops in private than at the races. We have seen at the | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
races where she's been - middle stages of a Group 1 sprint, it's | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
something we have never seen before. I don't know if she can go faster, | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
I am hopeful she never has to. Peter Moody talking in depth about | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
this mare and now putting finishing touches to her and making sure her | :04:49. | :04:55. | |
hair is nicely in place. You will see her, the big physical presence | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
of her, and we would expect thoer jump out of the start quicker than | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
anything else and try and make all the running and come home in front | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
for the Diamond Jubilee, a race that was renamed this year and Luke | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
Nolen, 32, will get his chance to win his 19th race on this mare. | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
They've struck up the most fantastic partnership. And the | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Queen will make the presentation for this race is looking down from | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
her new box, which allows her to see down into the paddock and she's | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
waiting for the runners to arrive in the paddock. Black Caviar will | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
be on her way very shortly. Let's tell you a few things about her. | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
The lastest 200 -- fastest 200 metres she's covered, she's broken | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
ten seconds. She's reaching a speed of 44.83mph. Willie mentioned her | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
weight, she's even heavier than she thought she was. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
She's heavier than Denman, who we always thought was the biggest | :05:58. | :06:08. | |
:06:08. | :06:14. | ||
Australia and the shortest she started 33-1 on, which means you | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
have to put on �33 to win one back. On her days off likes swimming, | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
going to the beach and her nickname is Nelly. I suspect the Australian | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
fans of Black Caviar will think today's odds are a giveaway, but | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
what are they? Here is John. They'll be thinking it's manna from | :06:35. | :06:43. | |
Heaven, she's 1-6 here. One punter had �a 100,000. There's punters | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
coming up having a bet and all they want is the ticket, not even going | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
to collect. Even if Black Caviar wins, which we expect she does, the | :06:50. | :06:58. | |
book-makers won't have to pay out. They want a momento of the day. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
It's madness here, Suzi, where are you? Practically next door to you, | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
John. The anticipation for the next race is great in here. Let's look | :07:07. | :07:17. | |
:07:17. | :07:23. | ||
at some of the fashions we have That's a terrific hat. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
Everybody having lots of fun, really stylish today. Those girls | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
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So, it's all about Black Caviar today. If you come with me we have | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
pole position in the grandstand. Over there is the finishing line. | :07:47. | :07:57. | |
:07:57. | :08:01. | ||
Over here is half of Melbourne. Hello Australia! Should I have said | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
good' day. Is she going to do it? No worries. She's had to go through | :08:05. | :08:13. | |
an awful lot to get over here. What do you think? You are speechless! | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
got so much money riding on this, absolutely. It's such a treat. You | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
have seen her race before over in Australia. Tell us about that | :08:21. | :08:29. | |
experience. Amazing. Every other horse - she's cruising and never | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
looks like getting beat. Hopefully she doesn't today. I saw you | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
looking at the pictures there. How is the jockey looking? Looking | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
confident. We are all confident, hopefully she can do the job today. | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
Half of Melbourne is here and half is at Federation Square watching | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
the screen. Have you seen her race before? I haven't, but I am not | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
from Melbourne. You are aloud to have not seen her race. On the TV, | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
but not live. She does look superspecial. Are you fans of Black | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
Caviar? Absolutely, we are here to support our Aussies friends. We | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
know it's not going to let us down today. I do hope so. Big cheer for | :09:12. | :09:22. | |
:09:22. | :09:29. | ||
so they can see this mare go around. Everybody standing here. They're | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
trying to get a shot of Black Caviar. Sir Peter O'Sullivan, who | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
has commentated on so many races over the years for the BBC is here | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
in the paddock and Peter, did you come specifically to see Black | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
Caviar? Well, I couldn't possibly not be here. Yes, it's a great | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
thrill for me and seven or eight decades of Ascot, it's one of the | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
most exciting days ever. I think this is one of the most spectacular | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
meetings as well. Of course, she can quite seriously Crown it now. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
She could. Actually behind us here is the Black Caviar gang and all | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
her owners and so exciting that you have come over here, because you | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
are taking a big risk to travel a filly halfway around the world. | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
Yeah, it's something that that has been planned for 12 months. | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
Hopefully all the trainers had everything in order and mapped out | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
a programme 12 months ago. We are relaxed at this stage. I will tell | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
you in about half an hour how good the plan was. We just got to hope | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
that she produces her form. lovely thing is that you are all | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
friends. You are all a bunch of friends, it's not like you have an | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
empire of racehorses. That's right. We have been friends for a long | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
time. It's good that we can come here with our family, friends and | :10:47. | :10:57. | |
:10:57. | :10:57. | ||
enjoy England and also Ascot, it's a marvellous place to come to. | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
gang of ten. Are some of you nervous? I don't think I have slept | :11:02. | :11:09. | |
since 3.00am. It is, it's nerve- racking but delightfully nerve- | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
racking, it's beautiful at the same time. You know who is up there | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
looking down, who has her position in the special box to see your | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
filly. Yes, I know. Isn't it marvellous. It's so exciting. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
brilliant. The Queen looking down. Luke Nolen behind, he is smiling | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
away now. All his nerves will dissipate as soon as he gets on | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
board this great mare because the worst bit is the waiting. Of Of | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
those who are trying to take her on, the field does include last year's | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
winner, Society Rock. If we make our way through here, James is | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
talking to Johnny Murtagh and working out whether they can beat | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
the supermare. You will be doing your best? Of course. What chance? | :11:51. | :11:59. | |
He likes the track. He has a a good record at Ascot. Johnny is waiting | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
there. I can see that Rishi is having a look at these horses in | :12:02. | :12:12. | |
the paddock. George Strawbridge is here. He celebrated his first ever | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
Royal Ascot winner yesterday and now, you are a great international | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
sportsman, I should imagine you are trying very hard to knock the | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
Aussie superstar over? Yes, I am bound to be very popular no matter | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
what I do, obviously, Clare. This Moonlight Cloud has a lot of speed. | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
She's very fast. She's very fast, whether anything is as fast as | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
Black Caviar, I rather doubt it. We will see. You are the sort of | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
second choice as it were, 5-1. Black Caviar odds on favourite. | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
Those are generous odds - you are not really a punter though. I never | :12:48. | :12:55. | |
bet. Too much money with your trainers. Absolutely, where have | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
they been all these years, Clare, including your dad? He said what | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
have we all been doing. Great for you. I hope Moonlight Cloud runs | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
well for you. Thank you so much, Clare. You see Luke Nolen there. | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Cheers at every stage. There was a cheer when Black Caviar came into | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
the paddock, a cheer as Luke Nolen gets the leg-up. | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Well, a lot of people are leaving, rushing away from the paddock to | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
get their vantage point for the race. Willie, you got your first | :13:27. | :13:30. | |
chance to see Black Caviar in the flesh, what did you make of her? | :13:30. | :13:40. | |
She's a big filly. Quite a big strong girl. She looks a nice type, | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
I know how fast she is. I know all that. I wouldn't put her in the | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
pretty category. She's a big girl. She's very strong. Everything about | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
her moves absolutely lovely, fluently. She's obviously a freak | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
and a very, very fast horse. Let's talk about a couple of others. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Interestingly, Moonlight Cloud, also a mare, no mare has won this | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
race for 27 years. We expect that to end today. Of course we do, | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Black Caviar is a mare and she's come all the way, 12,000 miles from | :14:15. | :14:23. | |
Australia to do that. In England we don't seem to be able to produce | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
real world-class superstar sprinters. What about Moonlight | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Cloud? She's trained by your old pal. She was very good last year. | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
She put up a stunning performance in France. He is expecting her to | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
be finishing. He would - she's a seven-furlong horse. He is hoping | :14:41. | :14:45. | |
that the six here will help her and she will be finishing. He is hoping | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
she doesn't get too far behind too early because she will be wanting | :14:49. | :14:55. | |
to finishing. Moonlight Cloud is the main danger in the market to | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
the favourite, Black Caviar. other problem is she is drawn on | :14:58. | :15:08. | |
:15:08. | :15:17. | ||
going to let go of her until Luke Nolen says he is absolutely ready. | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
They have even shipped over their own stalls handler. He has been | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
with her for most of her runs. He has come over from Victoria, and | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
will be down at the start to meet her. She just breaks into a trot. | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
Everybody around the paddock is saying, she does not look as if she | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
is heavier than Denman. But she must have incredibly heavy bone | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
density. That's the excuse I always use! As she breaks into a canter, | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
Luke Nolen takes his position, and she looks absolutely fine. There's | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
a youngster dressed in those colours, the Salmon and black | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
colours of Black Caviar. Just huge excitement all round the racecourse, | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
because there has been so much media attention on this horse. Her | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
cannot remember an occasion like this. The United States have been | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
covering this, and there has also been coverage in the Middle East. | :16:26. | :16:32. | |
Let's see what has been happening in the betting ring. | :16:32. | :16:41. | |
JOHN PARROTT: Well, she is a 1-6 shot. I have not heard anything | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
like it down here. There is an air of anticipation like I have never | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
witnessed before. CLARE BALDING: She has travelled | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
more than 10,000 miles, and now she has three quarters of a mile in | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
front of her, to confirm her superstardom. This is Black | :17:00. | :17:10. | |
:17:10. | :17:18. | ||
She has got an unbelievable turn of foot. This is why she is rated the | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
best in the world! She has got an unbelievable attitude, a great will | :17:25. | :17:32. | |
to win, and she has got so much power. She cannot do any more here | :17:32. | :17:40. | |
in Australia... She does not go as hard or as fast as other horses, | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
:17:50. | :17:51. | ||
but her movement allows her to cover the ground. Peter Moody has | :17:51. | :17:59. | |
got something to prove over there. There has never been a definitive | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
line from the Poms to say, you are the best. She has got to go over | :18:04. | :18:10. | |
there to prove it... The Wonder from Down Under. Her | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
trainer, Peter Moody, with his Royal Enclosure badge. I think he | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
:18:25. | :18:26. | ||
is feeling the nerves. Black Caviar, striding out down at the start. | :18:26. | :18:36. | |
:18:36. | :18:36. | ||
Frankie Dettori is on an interesting horse for Godolphin. He | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
rides Soul in this one. This was a good one over this turf in a | :18:42. | :18:52. | |
:18:52. | :18:56. | ||
previous race. But then finished last behind Krypton Factor. Like | :18:56. | :19:06. | |
:19:06. | :19:06. | ||
you say, the blue of Godolphin coming into form. | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
CLARE BALDING: And in terms of the betting, Moonlight Cloud is the | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
second choice, and the leading European hope in this one. Trained | :19:14. | :19:21. | |
by Freddy Head. Willie, I spoke to George, they are realistic about | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
him, with everybody thinking that Black Caviar is going to win this | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
one... WILLIE CARSON: Yes, she is a filly | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
who would be better over a bit of a longer distance, actually. She is a | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
seven-furlong filly. We are expecting that the ground and the | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
speed of this race, she will be coming home at the finish. She will | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
not be up there with them, she will be held up, and he is hoping that | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
she will get a placement. A quick look at last year's winner, Society | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
Rock. James Fanshawe being realistic on this one, saying that | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
they are pleased that it is here. Yes, when you get a horse that | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
likes it here at Ascot, it is a massive advantage. The fact that it | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
is drawn near Black Caviar, in 13, will mean that Johnny Murtagh will | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
:20:27. | :20:28. | ||
be able to keep his eye on her. has brought this one back to six | :20:28. | :20:37. | |
furlongs, she was running him a bit further. And he seems to be very | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
consistent now. That was a shot of The Cheka. Tom Queally on board, | :20:43. | :20:48. | |
who will forever be known as Frankel's jockey. | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
WILLIE CARSON: This is exciting, isn't it? | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
CLARE BALDING: It is, isn't it? I wonder how fast his heart will be | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
beating. As soon as you leave the weighing room, you just want to get | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
on with it. You can see the stalls handler that they have brought over | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
specially, he has even got the colours on the cap. Everything has | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
been thought of, she is like a movie star. Even the owner, when I | :21:15. | :21:23. | |
said, can we have an interview? He said, who are you with? I said, BBC | :21:23. | :21:33. | |
Television! It is very quiet where they are now. It is calming, as it | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
were. The amazing thing about it, Willie, she is not in the slightest | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
bit fazed by any of this. All good horses are like this, the real | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
superstars. Life to them is so easy. When they gallop, they're going | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
half-speed. Others are huffing and puffing. But she has never been put | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
under pressure. Possibly, that's why she just thinks, here we go | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
again, I am going to go for a canter. They even moved an Aussie | :22:05. | :22:15. | |
Rules football match so that there was no clash with this race. | :22:15. | :22:22. | |
Imagine them saying, over here, moving the England match! I wonder | :22:22. | :22:29. | |
what they are doing in that square in Melbourne at the moment. This is | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
Krypton Factor, a high-class sprinter. He won on Dubai World Cup | :22:38. | :22:44. | |
night. Trained in Bahrain. You know, Willie, that they are really out to | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
try to topple Black Caviar. Yes, he has been trying to do a bit of | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
sledging about the Aussies. He is a trainer who, I believe, I am not | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
certain, but I believe he is trying to buy a stable to trained at | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
Newmarket. So he will be a new name to be training at Newmarket. And | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
hasn't Newmarket been doing so well recently, in the last nine races, | :23:10. | :23:20. | |
all of them have been won by Newmarket-trained horses.. We are | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
not long from the start now. Everybody wants it to be off and | :23:24. | :23:32. | |
running, because it will not take long once those stalls open. Having | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
looked at some of her races, Willie, you were looking at the helicopter | :23:38. | :23:45. | |
shot from above the stalls. Yes, and she is such a big, strong mare, | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
there was a shot of her coming out of the stalls, she is a big thing, | :23:49. | :23:55. | |
and she came out first. And of course, she comes out first, and | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
the Jockey eases her back, to come back to the others, and they are | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
huffing and puffing trying to get to her. Of course, she is | :24:02. | :24:10. | |
phenomenal. Just to repeat, she has won 21 races in a row. Every race | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
she has run him, she has won, 11 of those at Group 1 level, but this is | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
her first race outside Australia. And it is the journey here, the | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
different situation, the different course, everything associated with | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
taking yourself halfway around the world which is her biggest | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
challenge. Peter Moody has made it very clear, he does not think there | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
is an awful lot to gain, but there is everything to lose. But what | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
there is to gain is an international spotlight, a global | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
standing. All the jockeys here today want to see how good she is. | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
She is slotting into stall 15. She will be closest to the stands, so | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
she could go all on her own, keep away from the other runners, if she | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
wants to. She gets a friendly ruffle of the hair from her handler, | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
over from Australia. We have a global sprinting superstar at the | :25:06. | :25:13. | |
head of our market. She is going to go off an odds-on favourite, 6-1 on. | :25:13. | :25:20. | |
Over to Jim McGrath. JIM MCGRATH: This is a mare that | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
has two nations agog. There's the scene in Melbourne, everybody | :25:25. | :25:35. | |
:25:35. | :25:39. | ||
watching. Cheers from the crowd as Black Caviar is installed safely. | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
This is her biggest challenge. Here at Royal Ascot, the Diamond Jubilee | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
:25:55. | :25:58. | ||
Stakes. A couple of them very edgy. They are racing in the Diamond | :25:58. | :26:07. | |
Jubilee Stakes. And Black Caviar has got away to a good start. The | :26:07. | :26:15. | |
early leader is Soul. Moonlight Cloud takes up a position in the | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
middle of the field, from The Cheka. Pastoral Player is further back in | :26:19. | :26:28. | |
the field. There followed by Krypton Factor. As they race up | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
towards halfway, Soul, the leader. Now, Black Caviar or ambling up on | :26:33. | :26:43. | |
:26:43. | :26:44. | ||
the near side, in third. Further back is kinky. As they come up, the | :26:44. | :26:53. | |
leader is Soul. Black Caviar starts to move up on the near side. Now, | :26:53. | :27:03. | |
:27:03. | :27:08. | ||
he says go. It is Black Caviar! Here comes Restiadargent. Here | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
comes Moonlight Cloud! It is tight! Photo-finish between Black Caviar | :27:14. | :27:22. | |
and Moonlight Cloud! Further back is Krypton Factor. Then, Sirius | :27:22. | :27:32. | |
Prospect, from Society Rock. This is tight. This is very, very tight | :27:32. | :27:41. | |
indeed. Black Caviar, flashing home down the outside. As they raced | :27:41. | :27:48. | |
towards the line... She might have just got it. She has got there, she | :27:48. | :27:58. | |
:27:58. | :28:00. | ||
has scraped home. She has got there by a nostril. The winner, number 11, | :28:00. | :28:07. | |
Black Caviar. The cheers of the crowd, and the relief of Peter | :28:07. | :28:16. | |
Moody. He will not be a happy man. Luke Nolen, we will have a look at | :28:16. | :28:26. | |
:28:26. | :28:27. | ||
it again. But this is the reaction in Melbourne, in federation square. | :28:27. | :28:33. | |
As they know now all that Black Caviar has scraped home in the | :28:33. | :28:40. | |
closest of finishes to the Diamond Jubilee Stakes. There is Black | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
Caviar. Look at Luke Nolen, riding so confidently near the line, but | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
look at the swoop down the outside from these two. He is riding so | :28:50. | :28:56. | |
confidently, as they get towards the line. But Moonlight Cloud, in | :28:56. | :29:02. | |
the White, and Restiadargent, in the centre, the two French horses, | :29:02. | :29:07. | |
are swooping. And as they hit the line, it is Black Caviar, by a | :29:07. | :29:17. | |
:29:17. | :29:40. | ||
It is a head by a neck. She started 6-1 on favourite. They are the | :29:40. | :29:48. | |
British bookmakers prices. Luke Nolen and Peter Moody, and there is | :29:48. | :29:54. | |
the photograph. Luke Nolen realised close to home that they were | :29:54. | :30:04. | |
:30:04. | :30:04. | ||
closing. And Black Caviar has scraped home. The alarm was going | :30:04. | :30:10. | |
off, I would say, about 30 yards from the line. And this fantastic | :30:10. | :30:19. | |
western has now won 22 races in a row. She has won the Diamond | :30:19. | :30:29. | |
:30:29. | :30:34. | ||
in front of this enormous crowd, a crowd of about 80,000 here at Royal | :30:34. | :30:42. | |
Ascot today. He has cantered her down the track. | :30:42. | :30:51. | |
She will be fully appreciative of that, and then he will trot back in | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
front of the members. Wye say the relief of connections would be | :30:56. | :30:59. | |
enormous and also the relief of the jockey, because when he watches | :30:59. | :31:05. | |
that again on replay he will have his heart in his mouth. He won't | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
sleep for a week. He is not the only one who had his | :31:10. | :31:16. | |
heart in his mouth, a whole nation held their breath because they | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
thought this supermare had been caught on the line and for all of | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
them watching in Melbourne a huge sigh of relief and cheer went up | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
when the result was confirmed and Peter Moody had said he didn't mind | :31:28. | :31:33. | |
by half an an inch, but I thought he was joking, maybe Luke took him | :31:33. | :31:40. | |
at his word, because, Willie, that was extraordinary. Got little too | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
confident, did Luke. He's been winning sort of easy all the time | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
down in Australia, but here obviously she's travelled a long | :31:50. | :31:56. | |
way. Possibly not as good as she normally is, but she has been on | :31:56. | :31:59. | |
the best on the day and there is a lot of relief that the photograph | :31:59. | :32:04. | |
went that way. If it hadn't gone that way, I am afraid the jockey, | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
the rest of his life would have been not very nice because he | :32:08. | :32:12. | |
looked as though he took it a little bit too easy, instead of | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
having a little look to see where the other horses were, he sort of | :32:16. | :32:21. | |
went up to the last quarter a furlong and hands and heels very | :32:21. | :32:29. | |
quietly. Let's have another look at it. Many people will have been | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
wondering what happened there. He doesn't want to give her a hard | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
race because of the travelling she has done and they want to go | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
elsewhere in the world and win another of these global sprint | :32:38. | :32:43. | |
races. Look, he is pushing her there. He has the stick, gave her a | :32:43. | :32:49. | |
little tap there. Back-hander. Another. He's flicked her a few | :32:49. | :32:56. | |
times. It's now. Now he is keeping her balanced. Hasn't - he stops | :32:56. | :33:00. | |
riding now and oh! Let me ask you an honest question, has he mistaken | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
the winning line? We will have to wait and see. We will wait and see | :33:06. | :33:13. | |
what he says when he gets back. He did actually stop riding there. | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
can see there the conflicted emotions of all those associated | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
with Black Caviar. They thought oh my word! She's been caught, and | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
then the jubilation when it's confirmed she has not been caught, | :33:24. | :33:34. | |
:33:34. | :33:48. | ||
she's hung on and has won the Nay please your majesty, my Lords, | :33:48. | :33:52. | |
ladies and gentlemen, everyone in the UK and everyone in Australia, | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
she has travelled halfway around the world, defending an unbeaten | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
record, she has hung on. It may have been tight, but she has won | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
her 22nd race. Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the Diamond Jubilee, | :34:07. | :34:15. | |
Black Caviar! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING. | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
It hasn't gone according to script, but the result is what everybody | :34:19. | :34:29. | |
:34:29. | :34:29. | ||
wanted. She's won it officially by a head and the time was 1.91 of a | :34:29. | :34:34. | |
second outside the record. It's been an amazing performance in the | :34:34. | :34:40. | |
ground under the circumstances. But Luke Nolen will be going back over | :34:40. | :34:47. | |
that and he will be looking over and over again and asking just why | :34:47. | :34:57. | |
:34:57. | :34:59. | ||
he eased. So, there she is. She's relaxed! I don't think there's | :34:59. | :35:06. | |
anybody else here very relaxed. But whether he actually mistook the | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
winning post, or whether he was confused, I don't know. Or maybe | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
too confident. Let's have another look. Look at him, he is riding | :35:14. | :35:19. | |
hands and heels, still riding out now, but look at those two on the | :35:19. | :35:27. | |
outside closing. And now he eases. But there's still a few strides to | :35:27. | :35:36. | |
go. Now he gets a response from the mare. He has just fallen in. The | :35:36. | :35:46. | |
:35:46. | :35:52. | ||
outstanding mare who has capped the most fantastic week here at Royal | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
Ascot. We have had Frankel's 11- length tkepl demolition on the | :35:57. | :36:03. | |
first day. We have had Frankie Dettori winning the Gold Cup. We | :36:03. | :36:08. | |
have had So You Think winning the Prince of Wales Stakes and the | :36:08. | :36:12. | |
Queen has had a winner. And there is Her Majesty down there to see | :36:13. | :36:19. | |
this mare herself. What a fantastic compliment to Peter Moody, to this | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
great mare that Her Majesty has come down herself to see her in the | :36:23. | :36:33. | |
flesh. A magnificent moment. A great moment for Australian racing, | :36:33. | :36:43. | |
:36:43. | :36:45. | ||
for Australian sport. Luke Nolen coming over. This great | :36:45. | :36:52. | |
partnership, he's been aboard for the majority of her wins. Just the | :36:52. | :36:57. | |
first couple, he missed another one under suspension. Anyway, sighs of | :36:57. | :37:02. | |
relief all round. I would say those who laid the long odds on breathing | :37:02. | :37:08. | |
the biggest sighs of relief as Luke Nolen steps on to the scales let's | :37:08. | :37:13. | |
check the details with John. are right there, Jim. The punter | :37:13. | :37:23. | |
:37:23. | :37:30. | ||
with �100,000 on to win �20,000, he had. Jim mentioned that Luke Nolen | :37:30. | :37:34. | |
will watch this a few more times, this is the bit he won't mind | :37:34. | :37:39. | |
seeing, the fact she did pick up again when she asked and Moonlight | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
Cloud couldn't close fast enough and on the line she was still a | :37:42. | :37:47. | |
nose in front. He gives Peter Moody a big kiss there. The gamble paid | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
off. The gamble to come here, the owners were the ones that wanted to | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
do it and the Queen has come down to greet the horse. Let's hear now | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
from the winning trainer and jockey with Rishi. | :38:00. | :38:07. | |
The first question, they want to know what happened in the closing | :38:07. | :38:15. | |
stages? I probably underestimated the testing track of Ascot. I was - | :38:15. | :38:20. | |
she had enough and the big engine right down, it's unfortunate | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
because it's going to overshadow what was a good win. They're going | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
to talk more about my brain fade than the horse's fantastic effort. | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
Do you feel that prior to that she had shown the superiority that you | :38:32. | :38:39. | |
expected? She did, but like I said, I underestimated the testing | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
straight 16, so we got away with it. Got away with it, what were your | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
thoughts, Peter? You only have to win by a quarter of an inch. We | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
have the job done. The way she travelled through the race | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
everything was going to plan. Was there ever a moment in the closing | :38:55. | :38:58. | |
stages you thought it wasn't quite as dominant as you would have | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
expected? We never expect dominance. We never asked her for dominance. | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
She gets the job done. We are more concerned about her next run than | :39:07. | :39:12. | |
today. We are extremely proud of her. She's 22, it's never been | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
about margins, about dominance. heard you talking before about the | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
fact that as a sportsman you never get a chance to represent Australia. | :39:18. | :39:26. | |
This is your chance to don the baggy green today, how proud of | :39:26. | :39:32. | |
you? Extremely proud Aussie. Words can't describe the feel. Just to be | :39:32. | :39:36. | |
here and take it all in, it's an unbelievable feeling and it's | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
befitting that it's with a horse like this. The moment you led her | :39:40. | :39:43. | |
up to meet the Queen, what was that like? Something I never thought I | :39:43. | :39:50. | |
would experience! It was quite overwhelming. There's no doubt your | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
majesty is certainly a horse lover and the two Queens of Australia, | :39:54. | :39:58. | |
maybe. And Luke, are you going to be able to enjoy this eventually? | :39:58. | :40:04. | |
Look, I will. We won, doesn't matter, but I think it may | :40:04. | :40:10. | |
overshadow what was a fantastic job by the horse. Take my hat off, this | :40:10. | :40:16. | |
little bloke here, Tony, and Paddy Bell, they looked after her the | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
whole time at Newmarket and she's done a fantastic job. I think | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
hopefully my performance hasn't overshadowed what was a great | :40:25. | :40:35. | |
:40:35. | :40:35. | ||
effort by the whole team. Peter, give him a hug! Well done. | :40:35. | :40:45. | |
Luke Nolen being pretty hard on himself, on the PA mic as well. | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
Black Caviar took a full circuit of the paddock and people taking final | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
photos of her and applauding her as she goes away now and I am sure | :40:53. | :40:59. | |
they will be heading to Hong Kong. There is a �1 million bonus for any | :40:59. | :41:04. | |
horse that can win three races in global sprint series in three | :41:04. | :41:09. | |
different countries. There is one in Japan as well coming up. A horse | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
at Newmarket, Clare, that won't be that bothered, you know. Who is | :41:12. | :41:18. | |
that? Frankel. That's true, he won't! Her Majesty the Queen makes | :41:18. | :41:27. | |
the presentation for the Diamond Jubilee to the winning owners. Ten | :41:27. | :41:33. | |
owners of Black Caviar. In fact, it looks as if the female members of | :41:33. | :41:40. | |
the winning partnership will do the honours as they lift now the | :41:40. | :41:45. | |
Diamond Jubilee trophy. A fantastic success for them. | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
Although Luke Nolen clearly still asking himself questions and | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
apologising, the main thing is, as Peter Moody said, they came here | :41:53. | :42:00. | |
and they won. Her unbeaten record remains in tact. Which is | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
absolutely marvellous, 22 straight wins. It's a modern day record. She | :42:03. | :42:13. | |
extends her modern day record. is an - after the race she walked | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
around and she was getting a cheer all the way around. She didn't | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
bother a bit. She is a really relaxed mare. A huge cheer goes up | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
for Peter Moody. He follows in the footsteps of the great trainers who | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
have come here, taken on the challenge of bringing horses from | :42:32. | :42:42. | |
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Australia to Royal Ascot, and have applause and I tell you what, when | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
punters can still collect they forgive pretty quickly. If he got | :42:53. | :43:03. | |
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caught, different story. But he didn't. Job done. I don't think we | :43:15. | :43:20. | |
saw her at her best, because all our sprinters were within five | :43:20. | :43:25. | |
lengths or there at the finish and the jockey was saying that he | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
underestimated the stiffness of this racecourse. In Australia the | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
courses are lovely, flat and nearly always run on fast-ish ground. | :43:35. | :43:45. | |
:43:45. | :43:47. | ||
jockey that got closest to catching them was on board Moon-- moonlight | :43:47. | :43:52. | |
Cloud. As the Queen poses for photographs, I suspect she is | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
saying did you wonder if you had won? Everybody held their breath. | :43:57. | :44:07. | |
:44:07. | :44:15. | ||
Let's hear his reaction, he very happy for my filly, and just a | :44:15. | :44:25. | |
nose for the finish. The best in France. Were you surprised when | :44:25. | :44:31. | |
Luke Nolen stopped riding? No, not surprise today, on good chance | :44:31. | :44:36. | |
normally, yeah. The best in Australia filly. Nearly? Yeah. | :44:37. | :44:42. | |
Almost. Well done, thank you. I think to be fair he probably | :44:42. | :44:44. | |
misunderstood the question there. I think he thought the question was | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
were you surprised that Black Caviar won? No, he wasn't surprised | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
at that. Happy scenes. I hope Luke can | :44:53. | :45:00. | |
actually enjoy it now. It's a shame for him. What he's anticipating is | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
that the rollicking he will get in the Australian press. You want to | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
pick up an Australian newspaper, they don't hold back. Well, he | :45:10. | :45:20. | |
:45:20. | :45:25. | ||
day for him, but let's not forget all these Australian people who | :45:25. | :45:33. | |
have come to see this mare, and she still won. We did not get the | :45:33. | :45:38. | |
fireworks, but after all, she still won the race. The full team of | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
owners, and I suspect that is a spot they will not want to be | :45:42. | :45:45. | |
leaving in a hurry, because this is a magnificent achievement. Well | :45:45. | :45:53. | |
done, them, for taking the gamble, for putting her record on the line. | :45:53. | :45:59. | |
Yes. 22 straight. CLARE BALDING: But it does confirm | :45:59. | :46:04. | |
what we said at the beginning, a race has to be won. It is not run | :46:04. | :46:09. | |
on paper. And the rest of the field have gone very, very close to | :46:09. | :46:15. | |
toppling her. Thierry Jarnet said, best in France, so obviously he | :46:15. | :46:19. | |
thinks that his filly is the best sprinter in France. If that is true, | :46:19. | :46:27. | |
well, she has beaten the best of France and the best that we can | :46:27. | :46:31. | |
muster in England. And even is she has not won by five or six lengths, | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
she has won. And that result alone caps an amazing week here at Royal | :46:35. | :46:44. | |
Ascot. It is the last that will be televised on the BBC for the | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
foreseeable future. Peter Dimmock was part of the royal procession | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
earlier, the first man to host Grandstand and Sports Review of the | :46:52. | :46:58. | |
year. The most influential person in BBC Sport of his era. He was | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
here in 1951, when the BBC first covered Royal Ascot on television. | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
So, a chance now to celebrate the last 61 years of partnership | :47:06. | :47:16. | |
:47:16. | :47:18. | ||
between the BBC and Royal Ascot. Welcome to Ascot. There are places | :47:18. | :47:23. | |
I will remember all my life. This place is special because it has | :47:23. | :47:29. | |
stood the test of time. Though some have changed, some for ever, not | :47:29. | :47:39. | |
:47:39. | :47:41. | ||
for better. Some have gone, and some remain. All these places have | :47:41. | :47:51. | |
:47:51. | :47:53. | ||
their moments. With lovers and friends, I still can recall. Some | :47:53. | :48:03. | |
:48:03. | :48:06. | ||
are dead, some are living. In my life, I have loved them all. | :48:06. | :48:16. | |
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COMMENTATOR: And they are away. As Gold Cup! Of all of these friends | :48:34. | :48:44. | |
:48:44. | :48:46. | ||
and lovers, there is no-one compares with you. These memories | :48:46. | :48:56. | |
:48:56. | :48:57. | ||
lose their meaning when I think of love as something new. I know I | :48:57. | :49:07. | |
:49:07. | :49:08. | ||
will never lose affection for people. I know I will often stop | :49:08. | :49:18. | |
:49:18. | :49:18. | ||
and think about them. In my life, I will love you more. There are | :49:18. | :49:26. | |
moments in life, when you want to be able to say, I was there. I will | :49:27. | :49:36. | |
:49:37. | :49:40. | ||
Peter hole, is with me now. In the early days of television coverage, | :49:40. | :49:45. | |
you must have had a huge number of challenges. Yes, and it is quite | :49:45. | :49:51. | |
incredible, the changes. Time goes by, and the one regret for me, | :49:51. | :49:57. | |
having had the honour to be invited by the Queen, is that This is the | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
last time the BBC will do it, which is, I feel, a bit of a tragedy, but | :50:02. | :50:08. | |
time moves on. I am 91, so I should not comment. In terms of the way | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
the meeting has developed, I think this Royal Ascot, we have been | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
saying in racing terms, it has been the best ever. You look at the | :50:15. | :50:22. | |
crowds, the grandstand, it is such a great setting for sport. It has | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
been a great week, with Frankel, then the Queen winning, and now | :50:27. | :50:33. | |
today, but without you and Willie putting it all together on the | :50:33. | :50:37. | |
television, that has made a tremendous difference. You're very | :50:37. | :50:40. | |
sweet, and I will just say, we have not primed him to say that at all. | :50:40. | :50:45. | |
But it seems very fitting that you should be here today, Sir Peter | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
O'Sullivan is here as well. And it does feel like the end of an era, | :50:49. | :50:54. | |
but I am very pleased that you're here. Very kind of you. I should | :50:54. | :50:58. | |
remind you that we have two more days of flat racing to come on BBC | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
television this year. We will be back here at Ascot for the King | :51:02. | :51:07. | |
George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on 21st July. And then, the | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
season finale, the highlight of the flat racing season in this country, | :51:12. | :51:17. | |
the Qipco British Champions Day, on 20th October, when we hope we will | :51:17. | :51:27. | |
:51:27. | :51:29. | ||
racing in the world this week, but also some of the greatest fashion. | :51:29. | :51:36. | |
With me now, Eve Pollard. You used to do this job, for 23 years. | :51:36. | :51:40. | |
Indeed! It is wonderful to come back to see that the pageant of | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
fashion is as good as it ever was. These dress codes that they have | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
introduced this year have got as got absolutely back to as good as | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
it used to be, particularly in the Royal Enclosure. Let's have a look | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
back at some of the beautiful outfits that we have seen this week. | :51:55. | :52:00. | |
This was on the first day, and she looked terrific in that figure- | :52:00. | :52:06. | |
hugging dress. And there has been a lot of Jubilee inspiration as well. | :52:06. | :52:13. | |
Indeed there has. This is the epitome of Ascot. One of my | :52:13. | :52:19. | |
favourites, effortlessly beautiful. And this one, the hat... The hats | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
have got larger and larger, because of the rules, saying your hat has | :52:24. | :52:29. | |
got to be a certain size. Look at this girl, she looks delightful. | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
have seen some of the younger girls looking really beautiful. And there | :52:34. | :52:39. | |
is also the vintage feel of this year, which looks so nice. She is | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
wearing flowers, as it's that it a day. I don't think you can go wrong | :52:43. | :52:51. | |
with that at Ascot, really. A lot of black-and-white, because of the | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
Ascot scene in My Fair Lady, I guess. And even though the weather | :52:55. | :53:03. | |
has been bad, people have put appropriate stuff on top. Of course, | :53:03. | :53:13. | |
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it has been the year of the tottering shoe. The heels have been | :53:17. | :53:24. | |
prodigious. The Duchess of Cambridge has got into trouble with | :53:24. | :53:34. | |
:53:34. | :53:35. | ||
the fashion police, but I believe the nude shoe is here for ever. | :53:35. | :53:40. | |
Also, the great thing about Royal Ascot now, you can come and look | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
fabulous, and you do not have to spend a million bucks on it. | :53:44. | :53:48. | |
certainly do not. The high street does Ascot fashion very well these | :53:48. | :53:53. | |
days. She looks like she is having a wonderful day. Half of the | :53:53. | :53:56. | |
enjoyment is just being comfortable, enjoying what you're wearing, | :53:56. | :54:01. | |
putting it back on, having a drink and having a great time. Let's hope | :54:01. | :54:05. | |
these pictures go around the world, now that there is an Australian | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
superstar in our midst, and British fashion will do well out of it. | :54:10. | :54:14. | |
were watching Black Caviar as she came in here to an absolutely rock | :54:14. | :54:21. | |
star reception. Absolutely. It seemed like she had never heard | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
such a loud noise in her life. was a wonderful atmosphere. I have | :54:25. | :54:30. | |
very much enjoyed the fashion. Do you think the new rules have | :54:30. | :54:36. | |
brought us got back to where it should be? Absolutely, this is set | :54:36. | :54:42. | |
on a fair sale for the next 20 years. Women want to dress up, and | :54:42. | :54:45. | |
as long as that is the case, they will want to come to this event.. | :54:45. | :54:53. | |
It has been lovely having you here with us today. Lovely to be back. | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
Now, we have already had quite a bit about the Diamond Jubilee | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
Stakes, the closing stages of it. We will have a look at that in a | :55:00. | :55:05. | |
moment. But first of all, the start, and a very significant start it was. | :55:05. | :55:11. | |
Interesting to watch, in the closing stages, Moonlight Cloud, | :55:11. | :55:18. | |
Thierry Jarnet has brought her all the way over to chase Black Caviar. | :55:18. | :55:24. | |
Last year's winner, the unlucky one, number 13, he was getting fractious, | :55:24. | :55:29. | |
and he has missed it completely. Yes, he sat right down. He is on | :55:29. | :55:34. | |
his haunches, almost. And Johnny Murtagh, he was shaking his head. | :55:34. | :55:40. | |
He said, I would have won, should have won. He said, if he had got | :55:40. | :55:47. | |
out with the others, he had to have beaten them. Also, five from the | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
left, in the white jacket, that is the runner-up, Moonlight Cloud. | :55:50. | :56:00. | |
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Nearest to us, the black spotted jacket, that is Black Caviar. | :56:01. | :56:06. | |
makes it look effortless. That was the beginning of the race. Let's | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
look at the closing stages now. You know what has happened with Black | :56:09. | :56:18. | |
Caviar, she has indeed won. Writing behind her there is Restiadargent. | :56:19. | :56:26. | |
And there, with the red, white and blue on the cap, is Society Rock, | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
making his progress. At the end of this, I think there's about seven | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
within about three lengths. Yes, we got the result that everybody | :56:36. | :56:44. | |
predicted, but nobody predicted the closeness of it. It was typical for | :56:44. | :56:54. | |
:56:54. | :56:54. | ||
this race, it was so close. Here's Moonlight Cloud coming. | :56:54. | :57:02. | |
Restiadargent in the centre. We just had Alex with us, saying, is | :57:02. | :57:09. | |
there an inquiry? He was very worried. The second and third | :57:09. | :57:14. | |
horses will not come to the July Cup, they will be racing in France. | :57:14. | :57:20. | |
So, the second and third not back in the UK. But it was a great race | :57:20. | :57:23. | |
to watch, about seven of them covered by three lengths. It does | :57:23. | :57:28. | |
not get any less dramatic the more you see it. The news on Black | :57:28. | :57:33. | |
Caviar... She is going to go into quarantine tonight, and she is | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
going to get on the first plane back to Australia. She is not going | :57:36. | :57:41. | |
to run in the July Cup. I don't know, they were on about Singapore, | :57:41. | :57:44. | |
but she is getting back on the plane and going back to Australia. | :57:44. | :57:48. | |
We shall continue to follow her progress. I think definitely the | :57:48. | :57:53. | |
interest today, and the crowd here was hugely boosted by Black | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
Caviar's participation, they will continue to watch her to see if she | :57:57. | :58:00. | |
can carry on her incredible career. But she was given a fright today, | :58:00. | :58:06. | |
no doubt about it. The main thing is, she won. We have one more race | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
for you one BBC One this afternoon. It is the Wokingham Handicap, there | :58:09. | :58:14. | |
is a big field for it, and Jim McGrath will name them for us. | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
JIM MCGRATH: That decision to go back to Australia immediately is | :58:18. | :58:22. | |
not a sudden one. It was very much on the cards, that she would only | :58:22. | :58:32. | |
:58:32. | :58:32. | ||
Apology for the loss of subtitles for 44 seconds | :58:32. | :59:45. | |
Wokingham Stakes. JOHN PARROTT: So, just the 28 to go | :59:45. | :59:55. | |
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eachway at 10-1, Lightning Cloud. More fallout following Black | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
Caviar's narrow win. The press conference is taking place. Peter | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
Moody said Black Caviar was not 100% in the race. He said we will | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
look at her and when she gets home she might be retired. He also added | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
that Frankel's performance on Tuesday was the finest that he has | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
ever seen. Thank you for that, Rishi. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
Runners on the way to the post. This a recorded shot of Lightning | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
Cloud, the grey gelding trained by Kevin Ryan who won five times last | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
year. All of them over seven furlongs. And led home the centre | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
group in the Victoria Cup. Finished fifth that day. It was a good | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
tpoefplance -- performance. Obviously, knows this track. He is | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
going to run over six today. He was entered here yesterday and didn't | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
take that one up. They decided to wait for this this instead. He's | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
got a draw which is on the far side. I would imagine that they would | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
possibly these horses, the race might happen on the high numbers, | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
the stand side so that Lightning Cloud I would have said is not in | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
the right place. Lightning Cloud is at the bottom of the weights. This | :01:40. | :01:47. | |
horse Maarek is at the top with nine stone, ten. Big tall Joseph | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
O'Brien taking the ride. When he won at Newmarket, he has | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
taken a hike newspaper the weights -- a hike up in the weights. Every | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
pound counts. You are looking for a horse that is going to be under his | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
actual weight performance, rather than a horse whose weight | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
absolutely put on top of him. This horse got a little bit too much | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
weight. Medicean Man is better weighted, do you think? Yes. Loves | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
it here having won last three starts at this course. Four days | :02:30. | :02:37. | |
ago, he ran only four days ago, was fourth in the King's Stand. An | :02:37. | :02:47. | |
:02:47. | :02:59. | ||
Australian trainer. We have an the making. | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
Ryan Moore has a decent chance on High Standing. Again decently | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
weighted. Been running all right without winning yet this season. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
is drawn one, away on the far side. He will go up the far side rail. | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
won this race in 2009 when William Haggas trained him. Has been placed | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
at a good level twice after that. Hopefully Jeremy - he's obviously | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
thinks the horse is going to run big to get a hold of Ryan Moore to | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
ride him. Let's look at Dungannon, one of Andrew Balding's two runners | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
in this, he has Desert Law as well. His form here at Ascot reads two, | :03:39. | :03:49. | |
:03:49. | :03:50. | ||
two, 0, 0, one. Finished - won the Shergar Cup. Andrew's last and only | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
Royal Ascot winner came in this race in 2007, ridden by that man | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
there, William Buick. He needs this winner to try and get in front of | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
Ryan Moore, because Ryan is leading the championship for the jockey to | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
ride the most winners at Royal Ascot. Waffle was a close second to | :04:11. | :04:21. | |
:04:21. | :04:25. | ||
Deacon Blues who unfortunately is missing out of action at the moment. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
David is sa bit of a master with sprinters and he was quoted saying | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
she is horses won't mind a little bit of cut in the ground and he | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
obviously fancies this horse Waffle. Godolphin have Scarf in the race. | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
Now that's an interesting horse, Scarf. He was a winner in Australia. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
Got the Australian theme again. Good looking horse, don't you | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
think? Ran a few times over here, hasn't shown too much. That looks | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
like Frankie Dettori has got off Elusivity, getting on board again | :04:57. | :05:06. | |
now. Giving him a few clicks saying on you go. They're loading up | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
quickly. Let's look at the top of the market and Lightning Cloud is | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
our favourite. About four more to go forward for | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
the final race on BBC1 at Royal Ascot. This is the Wokingham, here | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
is Jim McGrath. The two top at the head of the | :05:27. | :05:37. | |
:05:37. | :05:41. | ||
Wokingham. They're set, ready and stand by, 28 runners, they're off | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
and racing! Scarf one of the first away. Seal Rock Thrupp in the early | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
stages. Secret Witness also going fast on the near side. They settle | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
fully into stride. On the far side as they settle is up there Colonel | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
Mak, who shows the way, from Joe Packet and behind them is New | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
Planet. They're followed by Alben Star. Behind them is Desert Law. | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
They're followed by Oasis Dancer. In the middle of the pack Dungannon. | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
Lightning Cloud in about 6th in that group and being tracked by | :06:13. | :06:16. | |
Maarek in the white cap. Let's switch to the near side. They come | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
up there. It's Secret Witness who shows the way. Secret Witness out | :06:20. | :06:26. | |
in front here, from in second is Palace Moon, followed by Scarf. Far | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
side are in front. Medicean Man also in that group on the near side. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
They race up now inside the two. Joe Packet gets the lead from Alben | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Star. Colonel Mak has gone. Lightning Cloud coming into it now, | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
followed by Oasis Dancer. Maarek in the clear and Dungannon. On the | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
near side led by Palace Moon. Action on the far side, though. | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Racing to the front Dandy Boy. Dandy Boy has the lead. Dandy Boy | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
wins the Wokingham. Morache Music in a photo for second with Waffle. | :06:58. | :07:04. | |
They were followed next by Hawkeyethenoo. Further back then | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
Maarek and Alben Star and nicely clear of Gordon Lord Byron, Pepper | :07:09. | :07:19. | |
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Lane is the last to cross the line. It's a big win for Dandy Boy, Path | :07:21. | :07:31. | |
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-- Pat Dobbs. Hawkeyethenoo. Waffle gets second, I would say. A photo | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
third between Morache Music and Hawkeyethenoo. Behind them is | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
Dungannon and Maarek who has run well. On the near side next to | :07:42. | :07:50. | |
Scarf down there with Palace Moon and also Elusivity. Top of the | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
screen Lightning Cloud, with Alben Star. Bottom of the screen the red | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
blinkers there of Secret Witness. Then Gordon Lord Byron, then Seal | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Rock on the near side. Down the bottom of the screen, | :08:04. | :08:09. | |
Pabusar, Medicean Man never got into it. Lui Rei on the near side | :08:09. | :08:16. | |
with Gramercy. Top of the screen Oasis Dancer. | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
Behind them King Of Jazz, then Desert Law. Then New Planet. Also | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
High Standing and Sir Reginald never got into it. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Joe Packet was showing speed early and got weary. A big field of 28 | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
here. Looking for the stragglers, I think | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
Pepper Lane was the last to cross. Colonel Mak, who showed pace, is | :08:40. | :08:47. | |
about second or third last. No doubt about the winner, Dandy | :08:47. | :08:57. | |
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Boy, Pat Dobbs. A handy sprinter. Dandy Boy has proven one of their | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
best. David Marnane the trainer and Pat Dobbs the winning rider. A good | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
performance. The official placings for second and third, Waffle | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
officially second, third is Hawkeyethenoo. Fourth, officially, | :09:27. | :09:37. | |
is Morache Music, Seb Sanders. There are the prices. Big prices | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
again. This has been the trend in the big handicaps this week. It's | :09:41. | :09:51. | |
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been hard to stab them with one this Dandy Boy. Won the Victoria | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Cup here, so had Ascot form but that was back in 2009. His last | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
four wins had been over seven furlongs, so possibly again proving | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
the fact the ground is testing here, it's sapping the energy energy, you | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
see Dandy Boy making a smooth run through the middle of that pack. | :10:18. | :10:24. | |
Luckily, doesn't get interrupted coming past the grey horses. Clare, | :10:24. | :10:30. | |
he ran in a mile handicap at the Curragh last month. The stamina | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
must come through. It's the way he took off at the furlong marker. | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
He's done it in the style of a very classy animal. He's carried nine | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
stone eight and he hasn't won for a very long time. So, today he has | :10:47. | :10:54. | |
put up a very good performance. That's one of the very good times. | :10:54. | :11:03. | |
Apart from Frankel times haven't been stunning this week. Graham Lee, | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
former Grand National winning jockey, his first ride at Royal | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
Ascot, coming home in third. For Pat Dobbs and David, the trainer, | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
this is a first for both of them, their first Royal winner with Dandy | :11:16. | :11:23. | |
Boy in the Wokingham. Great moment. | :11:23. | :11:33. | |
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victory, for sure, he will also be delighted to know that the time was | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
actually 0.23 of a second faster than Black Caviar recorded in that | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
scramble to the line in the Diamond Jubilee. So, if you were watching | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
and you are not a racing enthusiast, it doesn't necessarily mean that - | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
in fact it doesn't mean that Dandy Boy is better than Black Caviar, | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
but he has recorded a faster time. Strange as that may seem. There he | :12:15. | :12:23. | |
is there. Pat Dobbs, great to see him, a very hard working rider. | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
Great to see him get that Royal Ascot winner. It's been a great day | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
here. Great atmosphere. Never known a Royal Ascot like it for the | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
build-up, for the results, for just the way everything's panned out. | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
It's been one of those magic meetings. Let's check the full | :12:51. | :13:01. | |
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result now on the Wokingham with unlucky Waffle. Third Hawkeyethenoo | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
and fourth Morache Music at 20-1. Well done to connections. I am | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
going to grab a word with the trainer. Well done. Familiar | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
territory for this horse, he won the Victor Cup. -- Victoria Cup a | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
couple of years ago. We are trying to get him to switch off, he is | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
always a horse with plenty of speed. You know, we ran him over a mile | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
the last day because it was his first run for a mile. He's come | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
here in the best form we have had him in a long time. It's great to | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
see him back to form. He struggled really, he was out in Dubai. | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
broke the track record over seven and picked up an injury in the next | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
run and took a while to get him back again. He is back fully, thank | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
God. You clocked a quicker time than Black Caviar. We won't talk | :13:54. | :14:00. | |
about that! I am delighted for him. I am delighted for his owner, a big | :14:00. | :14:04. | |
supporter. It's great. Thank you very much. Here is Pat. Well done. | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
Thank you. Tell us how that went for stphaou the plan was to drop in, | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
take my time, he can be keen if he is too far forward. He settled good. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
Went through very well. Even got there a little bit too soon. But if | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
I didn't do when I did I would have been cut off and there was plenty | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
of horses on the inside probably would have been trafg problems. | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
traffic problems. Your first Royal Ascot winner. Yeah. Looking forward | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
to it for a long time. It's nice to get one. On a very important day in | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
racing, I was saying to David your horse clocked a faster time than | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
Black Caviar. Yeah, it felt very good. Even got there too soon. It | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
would be better horse longer I am sure. Well done. Thank you very | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
much. The Wokingham, a competitive sprint | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
handicap in which they've gone incredibly fast. The first four | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
home were virtually last in their respective groups at the halfway | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
stage. Let's look at the start. It was all over for Pepper Lane in | :15:09. | :15:18. | |
number 7 there. She rears up a lot. You can see this, did very well to | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
maintain the partnership and lucky the horse didn't do itself damage | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
and rightly so, there's no point. The race is virtually over. You | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
need get off on level terms. those circumstances, you say he | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
can't be certain she hasn't pulled a muscle or something. Let's look | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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at the group on the far side of the group. They were the three that | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
finished on the far side. The one that finished on the nearside was | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
right here at the back of his group, that was Waffle. Basically, they | :15:58. | :16:08. | |
have gone very fast in front. Cash in the closing stages. This side, | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
the group that get involved, and you can see on the far side, Waffle. | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
From what I have seen, they were lucky that none of them got stopped | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
as they went through. No, I think they were able to weave their way | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
in and out. Pat Dobbs has had a dream, riding the winner. Fran | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
Berry, I had a word with him, he says, his horse thinks he has one. | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
At least he won his own race, over on the far side. So, Dandy Boy | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
coming clear to win it. If you back one that was up at the front of the | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
race, on either side, you will probably get your money back next | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
time when they do not go so fast, and it is not such a tough race. | :16:51. | :16:58. | |
Presentation for the Wokingham Stakes has been made, by the former | :16:58. | :17:03. | |
head of the Hong Kong jockey Club. His horse finished third in the | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
Hardwicke Stakes, earlier on, behind Sea Moon. So, a landmark day | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
for them. A high-class winner of that handicap. | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
WILLIE CARSON: he is a very distinguished-looking jockey. Very | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
much into the Richard Hannon success story, because he has been | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
there a very long time. He is there every morning, and he gets a lot of | :17:30. | :17:39. | |
winners for Richard Hannon. But he does get third-string. Which is why | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
he had not ridden a winner at Royal Ascot until today. Let's take you | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
through the story of this final day at Royal Ascot. The crowd who | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
actually boosted by Australian racing fans coming to Ascot today | :17:52. | :17:58. | |
to watch the royal procession, and to support Black Caviar. The first | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
race went to the exuberant Frankie Dettori, in the blue colours of | :18:02. | :18:11. | |
Godolphin, on Tha'ir, and it was Frankie's second winner of the week. | :18:11. | :18:18. | |
But Ryan Moore went back to the top of the leading jockeys board, with | :18:18. | :18:24. | |
his victory in the 3.05. Then we had Black Caviar, moving smoothly | :18:24. | :18:30. | |
enough into the lead in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, but then Luke Nolen | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
himself said he had a brain freeze. But she held on, just. The Queen | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
came down to greet the winner. And, as we have just seen, in the | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
Wokingham Stakes, a 33-1 winner, Dandy Boy. It has been a truly | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
international week, we have had a Hong Kong-trained winner, and of | :18:53. | :19:00. | |
course, an Australian winner, among others. Just to confirm those who | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
have come into the winner's area today... And also, we have been so | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
lucky with the weather. We had that one cloudburst, that really could | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
have made the difference, that's where Black Caviar was lucky, that | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
that rain did not last any longer. Indeed, I think there's a lot of | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
people who had a huge sigh of relief, and I was one of them. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
Let's face it, most of us came here today to see a superstar. We saw | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
her, but I'm sure Peter Moody and Luke Nolen know that she is better | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
than that. She was not at her best today, and the journey must have | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
taken a lot out of her. Her fans do not go home disappointed, because | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
she has won, but the manner of success left everybody gasping. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
WILLIE CARSON: It was a workmanlike performance, rather than | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
spectacular. Honestly, can you imagine what would have happened if | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
she had been caught? It would have been terrible, but it did not | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
happen, thank goodness. And there we have happy scenes, because this | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
great filly has actually won a Group One race, travelling 12,000 | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
miles over to England, and it is very nice for it to happen, as well | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
as nice for all the English trainers to think, we are not that | :20:19. | :20:28. | |
far behind. And certainly the French trained as a! Yes, but the | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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English horses were not that far behind it, either. James, I asked | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
him, he could not even speak. he was really sat down in the | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
stalls. We still have two more races to come for you on BBC | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
interactive, sadly not on Freeview. But we do have two more races to | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
come. Tonight, at 10:50pm, highlights of the third quarter | :21:04. | :21:14. | |
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final in Euro 2012, Spain-France. And tomorrow night, England-France. | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
On Saturday 21st July, we will be back here for the King George VI | :21:21. | :21:31. | |
:21:31. | :21:33. | ||
and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. I was just thinking, that was wrong, we | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
are playing it Ilie! The graphic was wrong, I'm sorry. -- we are | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
playing Italy. I would just like to say a huge thank you to everybody | :21:47. | :21:55. | |
who has worked for BBC Television on Royal Ascot over the years. And | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
thanks to Willie Carson, it has been great to work with you. Bye- | :21:58. | :22:08. | |
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most magnificent sporting occasion in Europe. The theme of celebration, | :22:13. | :22:19. | |
very much in the air. This is the best racehorse that you have ever | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
:22:29. | :22:31. | ||
seen, I have ever seen, anybody will ever see. Can a performance! | :22:31. | :22:41. | |
:22:41. | :22:58. | ||
The superb, the spectacular, Wales's Stakes, So You Think! | :22:58. | :23:07. |