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2019 Moet & Chandon July Festival Newmarket – 11-13 July
2019 Moet & Chandon
July Festival Newmarket
FULL RUNNING ORDER (all times GMT+1)
Thursday 11 July Welcome to the 2019 Moet & Chandon
1.50pm Bahrain Trophy Stakes (Group 3) (2800m) July Festival Newmarket
2.25pm Tattersalls July Stakes (Group 2) (1200m)
3.00pm bet365 Handicap (1200m)
3.35pm Princess Of Wales’s Tattersalls Stakes (Group 2) (2400m) Newmarket’s picturesque July course plays host to its flagship
4.05pm British Stallion Studs EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes (1200m) fixture of the year, with the three-day July Festival Meeting featuring
4.40pm Edmondson Hall Solicitors Sir Henry Cecil Stakes a mix of Group races, top-class handicaps and fascinating maidens.
(Listed) (1600m)
5.10pm John Deere & Ben Burgess Handicap (1600m) Three Group races on the opening day of the action set the tone in
terms of the quality on show, with the feature event the Tattersalls July
Friday 12 July Stakes, a 1200m event for two-year-old colts and geldings. Last year’s
1.50pm bet365 Handicap (2000m) winner Advertise followed up his success in the Phoenix Stakes and
2.25pm Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes (Fillies’ Group 2) (1200m) also landed the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot just last month.
3.00pm bet365 Trophy (Heritage Handicap) (2800m) The Princess of Wales’s Tattersalls Stakes, a Group 2 over 2400m, is
3.35pm Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes (Group 1) (1600m) among the supporting events.
4.10pm Weatherbys British EBF Maiden Stakes (1400m)
4.45pm Porsche Centre Cambridge Handicap (1400m) Friday sees the fillies and mares take centre stage with the Tattersalls
5.20pm JFD Handicap (1000m) Falmouth Stakes now firmly established as a top-class Group 1 event.
Earlier in the afternoon, the two-year-old fillies line up for the Duchess
Saturday 13 July of Cambridge Stakes (Group 2, 1200m).
1.50pm Rossdales British EBF Maiden Fillies’ Stakes (1400m)
2.20pm bet365 Mile Handicap (1600m) The feature of the week, the Darley July Cup, takes place on Saturday.
2.55pm bet365 Superlative Stakes (Group 2) (1400m) The 1200m Group 1 event is one of the most significant races of its
4.05pm Bedford Lodge Hotel & Spa British EBF Fillies’ Handicap type in Europe and has a roll of honour that reads like a Who’s Who of
(1400m) European sprinting.
4.40pm Darley July Cup Stakes (Group 1) (1200m)
5.15pm Maritime Cargo Handicap (2400m) The betting for this year’s renewal is headed by the aforementioned
Advertise, while the valuable contest is given an international flavour by
Lim’s Cruiser, dual winner of Singapore’s top sprint, the Lion City Cup.
July Festival meeting Top trainers
Over the past five years, CHARLIE APPLEBY
and RICHARD HANNON have proved the most
successful trainers at the meeting with 43 winners
from 169 runners and 42 winners from 327
runners respectively.
July Festival meeting Top jockeys
JAMES DOYLE (52 winners from 217 rides) and
HARRY BENTLEY (30 winners from 147 rides) are
the riders who have done best at the fixture over
the past five seasons.
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Thursday 11 July
Tattersalls July Stakes
RACE IN FOCUS Rest of the action
The Mark Johnston-trained Visinari appears the potential star Last year’s Derby hero Masar will face five rivals in the Princess of
attraction in this Group 2 contest. Wales’s Tattersalls Stakes over 2400m. The New Approach colt became
the first horse to carry the royal blue silks of Godolphin to victory in the
The son of Dark Angel created a huge impression when making a premier Classic at Epsom last season, but a leg injury kept him off the
successful racecourse debut over the same course and distance last track for the remainder of the campaign.
month and will be well fancied to follow up, with Frankie Dettori taking
over in the saddle from Ryan Moore. However, Charlie Appleby’s charge made his long-awaited return to
action in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot last month and was far
The form standard is arguably set by Archie Watson’s GUILDSMAN, from disgraced in finishing fifth. And his trainer is confident that the
beaten just three-quarters of a length into third in the Coventry Stakes colt has made good progress since that belated return.
on his latest appearance. O’Brien’s pair of KING NEPTUNE and ROYAL
LYTHAM, Saeed bin Suroor’s Windsor Castle runner-up PLATINUM Masar is likely to be sent off the favourite to rediscover the winning trail
STAR and Karl Burke’s Carlisle scorer CLASSY MOON are also obvious almost three weeks later - despite having a shade over three lengths to
contenders. find with Sir Michael Stoute’s Hardwicke Stakes third Mirage Dancer.
Mark Johnston saddles Baghdad - a narrow winner of the Duke of
THE KEY STATS Edinburgh Stakes at the Royal meeting - as well as Communique.
Six of the last 11 winners have been drawn closest to the far rail
in stalls one, two or three. This may have enabled them to get Charlie Appleby on Masar
more cover in the early stages of the contest. “Masar has enjoyed a faultless preparation since his run in the
Hardwicke Stakes. We are confident that he is in as good a condition
This has not been a good race for Aidan O’Brien, who has as we have ever had him and is the one they have to beat.
saddled a number of leading fancies but has not had a winner
since 2005. He saddles King Neptune this year. “The improvement that we hope we have seen since then means
that we are confident that he can make up the three lengths on
Mirage Dancer – provided Sir Michael’s horse hasn’t improved by
another three lengths in the meantime!”
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Friday 12 July
Tattersalls Falmouth Stakes
RACE IN FOCUS Rest of the action
Newmarket trainer William Haggas looks to have strong claims Royal Ascot winners Raffle Prize and Daahyeh feature among a field of
of landing this Group 1 prize for the first time in his distinguished seven talented juvenile fillies for the Group Two Duchess of Cambridge
career, with his pair of representatives, Beshaayir and One Master, Stakes.
dominating the line-up for Friday’s feature.
The Mark Johnston-trained Raffle Prize will bid to follow-up her victory
ONE MASTER is already a winner at the highest level, having lifted the in the Queen Mary Stakes while Daahyeh, from the Varian stable, will
Prix de la Foret at Longchamp in October and she was only beaten attempt to take her 100 per cent record to three after landing the
a length when an excellent third in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Albany Stakes.
Ascot on her most recent start.
Ken Condon’s Celtic Beauty, who was beaten a length and a half by
BESHAAYIR steps up to the top level on the back of a Group Two Daahyeh that day, is the only Irish-trained hopeful.
success at The Curragh on her seasonal debut and is the mount of
Frankie Dettori. Saeed bin Suroor’s Final Song, third in the Queen Mary, is one of two
Godolphin runners along with the Charlie Appleby-trained Divine
I CAN FLY, beaten a length and a half by that filly in the Lanwades Stud Spirit.
Stakes, is Aidan O’Brien’s sole representative in a contest which he
took with Alice Springs in 2016 and Roly Poly the following year.
Roger Varian is responsible for the two three-year-olds in the line-up,
1000 Guineas third QABALA and MOT JUSTE. VERACIOUS, trained by
Sir Michael Stoute, completes the sextet.
THE KEY STATS William Haggas on One Master
One Master will have to buck some strong trends if she is to take “Whether she went too early at Royal Ascot, which personally I think
this – no horse older than four has won the race since as far is harsh, or whether she just didn’t quite get home I don’t know, but
back as German challenger Proudwings in 2001. she’s a pretty decent filly.
Eleven of the last 12 winners of this race had already proven “There aren’t that many Group 1 opportunities over 1400m, and I
themselves and earned a BHA rating of 110 or more – only One think she’s more effective at 1600m than 1200m, so that’s why we
Master and I Can Fly fit that bill this year. are going for the Falmouth.”
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Saturday 13 July
Darley July Cup
RACE IN FOCUS Rest of the action
Royal Ascot winner Advertise is among 15 confirmations for Europe’s The historic Bet365 Bunbury Cup over 1400m is frequently a puzzler for
premier 1200m sprinting contest, the Darley July Cup at Newmarket. punters, as one of the most competitive handicap contests of the year.
The race is named in honour of Sir Charles Bunbury (1740–1821), who
Martyn Meade’s stable star bounced back from an underwhelming run in served as the Senior Steward of the Jockey Club and introduced both
the 2000 Guineas to win the Commonwealth Cup last month in fine style of the Classics held at Newmarket.
Diamond Jubilee Stakes runner-up DREAM OF DREAMS is likely to be Burnt Sugar landed the contest on the same card 12 months ago and
his chief market rival, Sir Michael Stoute’s five-year-old having taken is among a huge entry of horses competing for the first-prize purse of
his form to a new level this season. He came within a head of denying more than £74,000.
Blue Point his famous Royal Ascot double when a fast-finishing second
in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes. Roger Varian’s Spanish City went down by half a length to Burnt Sugar
in that race, but his trainer is hopeful of another big run.
Another one bringing Royal Ascot form is Roger Varian’s CAPE BYRON,
who landed an almighty gamble in the Wokingham but faces a steep “I think he is in good form and I think he will run a big race in the
rise in grade from handicaps to Group One company. Bunbury Cup,” he said this week. “He was a touch unlucky in it last
year. I hope that the rain stays away, because he wouldn’t want loose
The Aidan O’Brien-trained TEN SOVEREIGNS is perhaps the most or soft ground.”
interesting contender in the race. He was unbeaten at two, but
seemingly failed to see out 1600m in the Guineas and may not have
appreciated the rain-softened surface at Ascot last time.
THE KEY STATS Martyn Meade on Advertise
Royal Ascot is the usual route into the July Cup for most “He ran as I expected he might at Ascot and it didn’t take too much
winners – indeed 14 of the last 17 winners all ran at the royal out of him. He was quite convincing, and there might have been a
meeting on their previous appearance. bit more there too. He’s matured and come on dramatically since he
was beaten only by Calyx and Too Darn Hot as a two-year-old, and he
Despite the odd well-publicised exception, proven sprinters really gets his head down and gets on with it. I’ve every hope for him.”
do best in this contest rather than milers coming back in trip.
Eleven of the last 12 winners had run at least three times at this
1200m trip, winning at least once.
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guide to some of the leading
contenders in the Darley July Cup
Dream of Advertise
Dreams TRAINER:
TRAINER: MARTYN MEADE
SIR MICHAEL STOUTE OFFICIAL RATING: 119
OFFICIAL RATING: 119 Among the best two-year-
The winner of only three of olds around last season
his 19 races heading into when he won the Group 2
this season and looked July Stakes at this meeting
anything but a Group One (over course and distance)
winner in waiting, but in this campaign he has been transformed, plus the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes at the Curragh.
winning at Chelmsford and Windsor before all but clawing back Having flopped in the 2000 Guineas on his return when his stable
Blue Point in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot last time. was out of sorts, he bounced back with a bang when landing the
The Diamond Jubilee has yielded the July Cup winner four times Commonwealth Cup back over 1200m in first-time blinkers at Royal
since 2008 and Stoute, seeking a fourth win in the race 38 years Ascot last time. Muhaarar won that race and this in 2015 and the
after his first with Marwell, is enjoying a fine season. winner a year later, Quiet Reflection, finished third.
Limato Ten
TRAINER: HENRY CANDY
Sovereigns
OFFICIAL RATING: 114 TRAINER: AIDAN O’BRIEN
At the peak of his powers OFFICIAL RATING: 116
when winning this race in Looked to have the world
emphatic fashion three at his feet when preserving
years ago and went down his unbeaten record and
on his sword when runner- landing the Middle Park
up to Harry Power 12 Stakes at Newmarket in
months later. July but now arrives here
However the rest of his recent career has been a repeated case of with something to prove.
all or nothing. He faded in the closing stages when fifth in the 2000 Guineas on
A good winner of the 1400m Criterion Stakes on this course last his return after being sent off a heavily-backed favourite and was
time, he did well to defy a weight penalty there, but whether he’s up similarly disappointing at Royal Ascot, only keeping on at one pace
to still winning at the highest level is doubtful. to be fourth.
Lim’s Cape
Cruiser Byron
TRAINER: TRAINER:
STEPHEN GRAY ROGER VARIAN
OFFICIAL RATING: 114 OFFICIAL RATING: 113
The Singapore raider Wins in the Victoria Cup
will be causing one of and Wokingham at Ascot
the biggest shocks in the this year off handicap
history of the race if he marks of 103 and 107,
can surprise these rivals, beating an aggregate of
but he does have form at this level from home that would entitle 50 rivals, have shown his wellbeing.
him to respect. The manner in which he powered to victory last time was
He faded when eighth in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal impressive, but this top-notch contest irepresents a different kind
Ascot last time, when finishing more than seven lengths behind of test. Sakhee’s Secret, who had previously run only six times, was
Dream Of Dreams, but may be more effective on this slightly the last July Cup winner (2007) not to have won any kind of Group
quicker racing surface. race beforehand.
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