11 horses remain in contention for the 2024 running of the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes, including seven Group 1 winners.
Aidan O’Brien is responsible for five of the remaining contenders, headlined by the Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner Auguste Rodin.
O’Brien has won the race four times, mostly recently with Highland Reel in 2016, and is also set to run this year’s Coronation Cup winner Luxembourg and last year’s St Leger winner Continuous. Hans Andersen and Point Lonsdale are also both left in the race at the confirmation stage from Ballydoyle.
Globe-trotting stars Rebel’s Romance and Dubai Honour will provide formidable opposition though, with both horses having won multiple Group 1s around the world. Rebel’s Romance, trained by Charlie Appleby for Godolphin, hasn’t been seen on turf in Britian since winning at Goodwood in July 2022 but during that time he has won Group races in five different countries including Group 1s in America, UAE, Germany and most recently in Hong Kong in May.
Dubai Honour meanwhile won two Group 1s in Australia last year for trainer William Haggas and proved as good as ever at the age of six when winning the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint Cloud on his most recent start in June.
Bluestocking is another Group 1 winner this year having won the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on her latest start for Ralph Beckett while Sunway was successful at the top-level for David Menuisier having won the Criterium International last year. He is the only three-year-old in the possible line-up and arrives here on the back of an excellent second in the Irish Derby.
Although Hardwicke Stakes winner, Isle Of Jura, misses the race through injury, that form line is still likely to be represented by the second, French challenger Goliath for Royal Ascot-winning trainer Francis-Henri Graffard, and the third, Middle Earth, for John and Thady Gosden.
Final declarations will be made at 10am on Thursday, 25th July.
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Aidan O’Brien is responsible for five of the remaining contenders, headlined by the Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner Auguste Rodin.
O’Brien has won the race four times, mostly recently with Highland Reel in 2016, and is also set to run this year’s Coronation Cup winner Luxembourg and last year’s St Leger winner Continuous. Hans Andersen and Point Lonsdale are also both left in the race at the confirmation stage from Ballydoyle.
Globe-trotting stars Rebel’s Romance and Dubai Honour will provide formidable opposition though, with both horses having won multiple Group 1s around the world. Rebel’s Romance, trained by Charlie Appleby for Godolphin, hasn’t been seen on turf in Britian since winning at Goodwood in July 2022 but during that time he has won Group races in five different countries including Group 1s in America, UAE, Germany and most recently in Hong Kong in May.
Dubai Honour meanwhile won two Group 1s in Australia last year for trainer William Haggas and proved as good as ever at the age of six when winning the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint Cloud on his most recent start in June.
Bluestocking is another Group 1 winner this year having won the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh on her latest start for Ralph Beckett while Sunway was successful at the top-level for David Menuisier having won the Criterium International last year. He is the only three-year-old in the possible line-up and arrives here on the back of an excellent second in the Irish Derby.
Although Hardwicke Stakes winner, Isle Of Jura, misses the race through injury, that form line is still likely to be represented by the second, French challenger Goliath for Royal Ascot-winning trainer Francis-Henri Graffard, and the third, Middle Earth, for John and Thady Gosden.
Final declarations will be made at 10am on Thursday, 25th July.
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