CALANDAGAN (Gleneagles) wins the 2025 G1 Japan Cup🇯🇵 The most beautiful race I've watched in my life. I have so much happiness & gratitude in my heart for @AgaKhanStuds ,Mickael Barzalona, & Mr Francis Graffard- grooms/all behind the scenes who worked so hard for this. FOR HH💚❤️
Before @Keenelandracing hosts the @BreedersCup, the track will celebrate its 90th birthday with a 17-day fall meet from Oct. 2-24 featuring 22 stakes worth $10.7 million. Read more: https://t.co/EFLgLazjIB
On Sept. 18, Belmont Park will open its doors for the first time since 2023 and bring downstate racing into the 21st Century. Read more: https://t.co/oMQks5fQRv @BobEhalt
Day 2 was WOW! Victorious is a legit runner , Lovely Blue Bolt wins so nicely. Ombudsman is an actual FREAK. Other horses won nicely as well with a few big prices. Day 3 tomorrow!
Wonderful first day of racing. Lovely wins by Great Barrier Reef & Mission Central. Props to Bow Echo very classy horse. Ten Bob Tony and Aga Khan bred Kizlyar with bomb prices. Map of Stars stylishly gets the Graffard barn on the board. On to Day 2!
BLUE BOLT 🏆 G2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes
#RoyalAscot@Ascot
Last term's G1 Sun Chariot Stakes runner-up Blue Bolt (Blue Point) is back on the path into elite-level company after breaking Andrew Balding's duck at this year's Royal Ascot meeting with a dominant performance in the latter stages of Wednesday's G2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes.
"She was cherry ripe today," commented Colin Keane after partnering his fourth Royal winner.
O: @JuddmonteFarms
B: C-Squared Investments
T: Andrew Balding
J: Colin Keane @ctkjockey
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#26 VICTORIOUS is now 3 for 3 in her career after getting away late to easily win the Queen Mary Stakes (G2) at @Ascot. Ryan Moore was aboard for Aidan O'Brien.
#6 OMBUDSMAN rallied down the center of the track blowing the field away in the @BreedersCup Win and You're In Prince of Wales’s Stakes (G1) at @Ascot. @WilliamBuickX was up for trainers John & Thady Gosden and owner @godolphin.
#3 BLUE BOLT was full of run in the stretch to easily win the Duke of Cambridge Stakes (G2) at @Ascot. @ctkjockey was up for trainer Andrew Balding and owner @JuddmonteFarms.
Colin Keane on Blue Bolt after winning the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes
🗣️ "She's a lovely filly. She won her first race back at Goodwood earlier in the year and Andrew thought she had come on a lot from there. He had her cherry-ripe today.
"Last year she came a long way in a short space of time and was second in the Falmouth. She's a bigger, stronger filly this year and hopefully she can keep progressing.
"I'm very lucky to be wearing these silks and getting to ride these horses. As I've said before, we're in a very privileged position."
Royal Ascot 16-June-2026 @Ascot
Great Barrier Reef (Wayne Lordan) and Mission Central (Ryan Moore) give @coolmorestud and Aidan O'Brien a double on Day 1.
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