Aidan O’Brien lands a fifth Irish Oaks after Seventh Heaven springs surprise
Seventh Heaven, a 14-1 shot, provided Aidan O’Brien with his fifth success in the Irish Oaks but his more fancied filly Even Song, the 4-5 favourite, failed to make the frame
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Greg Wood and Tony Paley: The Jamie Osborne-trained Royal Ascot winner Defrocked has been sold to race in Hong Kong
Exosphere’s connections hopeful as Newmarket’s July Course dries out
Lord Grimthorpe, racing manager to Khalid Abdullah, reports that a good run is expected of Exosphere in the Princess Of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket’s July meeting with ground drying out
William Buick to miss 30 days as suspension confirmed by appeal panel
Godolphin will be without one of their principal jockeys for most of July after a 30-day suspension imposed for causing interference as well as offending the Chantilly stewards was confirmed in Paris on Wednesday
Clive Cox hopes he can keep punching above his weight in Sandown’s Eclipse
Clive Cox, the Lambourn trainer, saddled two Group One winners at Royal Ascot and has high hopes of taking honours again with My Dream Boat in Saturday’s Eclipse Stakes at Sandown
Dartmouth wins dramatic Hardwicke Stakes for the Queen at Royal Ascot
There was a royal victory on the final day at the meeting but not until the rider on the runner-up had lost his whip at a crucial stage and then the first past the post had to get the all-clear at a stewards’ inquiry
Royal Ascot 2016: Diamond Jubilee Stakes day – as it happened
Twilight Son won the day’s big race, while the Queen’s Dartmouth won the Hardwicke Stakes
Ryan Moore clinches Royal Ascot top jockey title on Twilight Son
The rider was successful on three winners to take the prize he won in 2015 with a record number of nine victories but was not satisfied after a turbulent week
