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Quadruple Bidding Yeats Heads Group One Entries
22/04/09

Yeats (Aidan O’Brien), who will be bidding for an unprecedented fourth Gold Cup in June, heads 32 entries for this year’s race.

Kasbah Bliss (C Pieux blue cap)
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The already great eight-year-old could be in for an intriguing clash with top French-trained staying hurdler, Kasbah Bliss (Francois Doumen), and the likes of Godolphin’s Caulfield Cup winner, All The Good and last year’s Queen’s Vase winner, Patkai (Sir Michael Stoute).

Amongst the 31 entries for the Coronation Stakes have attracted 60 and 53 top three-year-olds respectively and the picture for those events will, as ever, become clearer after the Classics at Newmarket and Epsom.

ROYAL ASCOT 2009 ORDER OF RUNNING

FIRST DAY - TUESDAY 16th JUNE
2.30 pm The Queen Anne Stakes (Group 1)
3.05 pm The King’s Stand Stakes (Group 1)
3.45 pm The St James’s Palace Stakes (Group 1)
4.20 pm The Coventry Stakes (Group 2)
4.55 pm The Ascot Stakes (Handicap)
5.30 pm The Windsor Castle Stakes (Listed)

SECOND DAY - WEDNESDAY 17th JUNE
2.30 pm The Jersey Stakes (Group 3)
3.05 pm The Windsor Forest Stakes (Group 2)
3.45 pm The Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Group 1)
4.20 pm The Royal Hunt Cup (Heritage Handicap)
4.55 pm The Queen Mary Stakes (Group 2)
5.30 pm The Sandringham Stakes (Listed) (Handicap)

THIRD DAY - THURSDAY 18th JUNE
2.30 pm The Norfolk Stakes (Group 2)
3.05 pm The Ribblesdale Stakes (Group 2)
3.45 pm The Gold Cup (Group 1)
4.20 pm The Britannia Stakes (Heritage Handicap)
4.55 pm The Hampton Court Stakes (Listed)
5.30 pm The King George V Stakes (Heritage Handicap)

FOURTH DAY - FRIDAY 19th JUNE
2.30 pm The Albany Stakes (Group 3)
3.05 pm The King Edward VII Stakes (Group 2)
3.45 pm The Coronation Stakes (Group 1)
4.20 pm The Wolferton Rated Stakes (Listed)
4.55 pm The Queen’s Vase (Group 3)
5.30 pm The Buckingham Palace Stakes (Handicap)

FIFTH DAY - SATURDAY 20th JUNE
2.30 pm The Chesham Stakes (Listed)
3.05 pm The Hardwicke Stakes (Group 2)
3.45 pm The Golden Jubilee Stakes (Group 1)
4.25 pm The Wokingham Stakes (Heritage Handicap)
5.00 pm The Duke of Edinburgh Stakes (Heritage Handicap)
5.35 pm The Queen Alexandra Stakes (Conditions)