Performance ratings

Below are the performance ratings from Royal Ascot, which can be used to compare the merit of their achievements against the previous 12 winners of each contest from the book. The performance that took my eye was that of Aqlaam in the Jersey Stakes – a race with a decent pedigree in which above-par winners have followed up.
Don’t forget the book can also be used to guide you with the subsequent records of placed runners too in races like the Windsor Castle Stakes.

I mentioned earlier in the season that when analysing each runner for a trends race it can be worth backtracking, and a good example was Big Timer in the Wokingham, who was a runner-up previously in the John Of Gaunt Stakes at Haydock (J.W. Lees Stakes) where they have a profitable subsequent record.
Not that clever cloggs here backed it as my ante-post bet on Orpsie Boy was pulled out on Saturday morning, so apologies to anyone who punted him.
My editor at the Guardian, Tony Paley, was at Ascot on Saturday and spoke to connections who said that he scoped badly in the morning. There will hopefully be another day for him – big field on fast ground. I managed to get some money back on the race with King’s Apostle each-way that I mentioned as the danger.


Performance ratings

COVENTRY STAKES - Art Connoisseur 75

KING’S STAND STAKES - Equiano 77

ST JAMES’S PALACE STAKES - Henrythenavigator 90

QUEEN ANNE STAKES - Haradasun 80

WINDSOR CASTLE STAKES - Flashmans Papers 60

JERSEY STAKES - Aqlaam 81

PRINCE OF WALES’S STAKES - Duke Of Marmalade 88

ROYAL HUNT CUP - Mr Aviator 71

QUEEN MARY STAKES - Langs Lash 61

NORFOLK STAKES - South Central 64

RIBBLESDALE STAKES - Michita 69

GOLD CUP - Yeats 85

BRITANNIA STAKES - Fifteen Love 67

KING GEORGE V STAKES - Colony 62

KING EDWARD VII STAKES - Campanologist 72

CORONATION STAKES - Lush Lashes 80

QUEEN’S VASE - Patkai 62

CHESHAM STAKES - Free Agent 59

HARDWICKE STAKES - Macarthur 77

GOLDEN JUBILEE STAKES - Kingsgate Native 82

WOKINGHAM STAKES - Big Timer 72


The Top Of The Form runners managed to find some Royal Ascot winners, including Colony, that was mentioned in the Racing and Football Outlook last week.
Here are this week’s entries up to Sunday for runners that I’ve mentioned in copy during recent weeks, though there aren’t too many engagements – I could do with a quieter week anyway, don’t know about you!

Ballinteni (Saturday)
Bushman
Choose Your Moment
Clowance
Dolcetto
Full Speed
Galactic Star
Jocheski
Karoush
Katiyra (Saturday)
Kidlat
Moonstone
Otaared
Pacifism
Ready To Crown
Tazeez (Wednesday & Thursday)
Tighnabruaich (Saturday)
Trenchtown

I’ll be back blogging later this week.