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Globeform @ Royal Ascot 2006 |
Welcome to Globeform's big Royal Ascot Special - with daily previews, ratings, selections and betting plans to the world's best race meeting - now back at Ascot and staged from June 20 to June 24.
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| St James’s Palace: Araafa to follow up? |
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Royal Ascot Tuesday: Araafa, upset winner of the Irish 2000 Guineas (G1) at The Curragh, where he beat George Washington, will be a short priced favourite for the St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1). But will he be too short? Undoubtedly the best horse going into this mile contest, and facing a sub-standard field, he is hard to oppose – but the course and the ground will be somewhat different this time.
His chief rival may be the French raider Stormy River, who tries to bounce back after being a losing favourite in the Poule d’Essai des Poulains (G1) at Longchamp after impressing in his prep for that Classic.
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