After two days of sparkling fashion, elite racing, and a few surprises, Day Three of Royal Ascot 2025 pivots toward endurance, prestige, and the enduring drama of the Gold Cup—the crown jewel of the meeting’s staying races. The atmosphere will be electric, and while the royalty may steal the headlines, it's the horses who will write history.

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🏆 Feature Race: The Gold Cup (Group 1)

The eyes of the racing world turn to the 2m 4f Gold Cup, the most coveted prize for stayers in the sport. This year, we see a mouthwatering clash between the reigning champion Kyprios, now a seasoned stayer seeking a second crown after last year’s gritty win, and the fast-rising star Sweet Redemption, a lightly raced but powerful stayer from the John and Thady Gosden yard who has dominated in trial races this spring.

Also lining up is Vauban, the dual-purpose marvel who won the Queen’s Vase in 2023 and returns with serious ambitions. If the ground stays good-to-soft, expect Gregory, last year’s St Leger runner-up, to find his rhythm late and mount a challenge.

 

It’s a clash of generations, form, and stamina—a race for the ages.

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 Day 3

SERENITY PRAYER (3.40) – The Oaks form isn’t represented in this year’s Ribblesdale but Serenity Prayer was a staying-on second to subsequent Epsom runner-up Whirl in the Musidora at York and Andrew Balding’s filly looks open to stacks of further improvement now set even more of a stamina test.

 Day 4

SHADOW OF LIGHT (3.05) – Classic form often comes to the fore in the Commonwealth Cup and Charlie Appleby’s leading two-year-old colt from last season has clearly trained on based on his 2000 Guineas third at Newmarket. He looks made for the stiff six furlongs at Ascot and should be very hard to beat.

 Day 5

STORM BOY (3.40) – The big-money buy from Australia can be excused his first run for Aidan O’Brien at the Curragh as he clearly wasn’t ready to fire that day and if judged on his top-class form from Down Under last year, he should probably be favourite for Saturday’s feature sprint contest.

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