Royal Ascot: Bow Echo and Gstaad Set for Rematch

Royal Ascot 2026: Ryan Moore says Gstaad has 'got to improve' to beat Bow Echo

The top jockey provides the lowdown on all his rides on day one of the five day royal meeting in his regular blog for World Pool

Aidan O’Brien’s Gstaad can avenge Newmarket defeat by getting the better of Bow Echo in Royal Ascot showdown

Royal Ascot 2026 Day One: Gstaad to win the St James's Palace Stakes

Aidan O'Brien's three-year-old can land the Group One feature on the opening day of Royal Ascot while Zeus Olympios, Night Raider, Galileo Dame, Confucius, Haatem and Daiquiri Bay can also score

Royal Ascot: Bow Echo and Gstaad set for rematch

Royal Ascot begins in its traditional blockbuster fashion on Tuesday with three Group Ones, headlined by the rematch between Bow Echo and Gstaad in the St James's Palace Stakes.

O'Brien Close to Setting Royal Standard as Landmark Looms

Whatever the week ahead at Royal Ascot brings, there is one certainty and that is Aidan O'Brien stretching what's possible even further from the centre. Let's get this out of the way first; the current master of Ballydoyle will undeniably form his own one-man club at some point over the next five days with his 100th Royal winner. It is a club so exclusive that it will likely see no other member for decades, with the County Wexford-born nonpareil…

Talk can follow Echo home in St James's Palace

NO HORSE has attracted more attention ahead of this week’s five days of Royal Ascot than George Boughey’s BOW ECHO, who runs in Tuesday’s Group One St James’s Palace Stakes (4.20pm). The son of Night Of Thunder was certainly well-regarded as a two-year-old, winning his three starts, culminating in a good performance in the Group Two Royal Lodge at Newmarket in September. His late owner, Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, expressed his desire he miss the Dew…