Royal Ascot: Field Of Gold routs rivals in St James’s Palace Stakes romp to echo father Kingman | Racing News

The golden field illuminated the first day of Royal Ascot with a dominant exhibition in St James’s Palace stakes.

John and Thady Gosden’s foal was a second finish behind the tribunal in the 2000 Guinea before easily winning the Irish equivalent, while the French winner of Guinea Henri Matisse was also working.

There is no doubt that appeared as the best of the three, while Colin Keane crossed the favorite of 8/11 before bursting clearly to beat Henri Matisse by three and a half lengths, with the court in power in third.

Field of Gold has now drawn the same route as his father Kingman, who also suffered a defeat in Newmarket before winning Irish redemption and adding Royal Ascot Glory when he is formed by John Gosden.

“As a father, like a son,” said Gosden, referring to Kingman’s victory in 2014. “The nerves may have reached the coach in advance but fortunately not to the horse or the jockey.

“It was great, a great performance and Oisin (Murphy) did a good job on Windlord fixing a uniform rhythm and he came to the head of the right and he had a lot of horse.

“For a while, I thought” howls, it’s Ascot and it climbs and we went a little soon “. I was not looking at it, I was looking back as you always had to do here, but fortunately, none of the dangers came to do it.

“He always impressed at the age of two, but he was a big boy and was slightly exceeded. We directed him in France, which was a mistake in itself and I should have run him in Dewhurst and I regret it. But this year, he was exemplary in everything he did and it is a pleasure to train because he is a fairly relaxed character.”

Gosden admitted that the Irish Guinea of ​​2000 had not been part of the planned campaign of Field of Gold, which could influence where the colt then heads.

He added: “It was never the plan to go to Ireland and he had a lawsuit and two Guinea and now what is a lot of race and we are not even half the season.

“Maybe [we’ll] Make it up now and go to Sussex, but we will see. If we had not been to Ireland, I would have been eager to go to the eclipse.

“When they win like that and make things easy, they take a lot of themselves and I don’t want to be someone who makes him come back quickly in an eclipse directly at the back of that.”

Ancestry leads to the Irish house 1-2-3-4 in the issues of Ascot

The hopes of a winner for the King and the Queen were destroyed, while the goods who reach High finished a ninth never in the issues of Ascot.

A first horse formed by Willie Mullins to transport the royal colors, reaching the top was the favorite 11-4 in the hands of Ryan Moore – but when he looked full of running by turning the turn at home, he was all dressed with nowhere to go against the rail and when he was finally out, it was too late.

At the front, comrade Irish Raider by Henry de Bromhead, Ascending (20/1), lost under Billy Lee in the final stages of the two and a half miles competition to beat Nurburgring, with the coach of the latter Joseph O’Brien, also dragging the third and fourth house in the comfort zone and Leinster.