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When is the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot 2022?

Royal Ascot Wednesday 15th June 2.30pm
The Queen Mary Stakes (Group 2)
Age: 2yo fillies
Distance: Five furlongs
Weights – 9 stones
Prize: £110,000

Queen Mary Stakes 2019 where Raffle Prize wins
History of the Queen Mary Stakes race at Royal Ascot
First run in 1921, the event is named after Queen Mary, the consort of King George V.

From 1971, the race was classified at Group 3 level. It was promoted to Group 2 status in 2004. 

The most successful jockey has been Sir Gordon Richards with 5 wins between 1932 and 1946.

The trainer with most wins was Fred Darling with 7 winners between 1924 and 1946 –  these included all of Sir Gordon Richards’ winners.

Royal Ascot Queen Mary Stakes Trends and Statistics
Here are the Queen Mary Stakes 12 year Trends and Statistics:

  • Age – This Race is restricted to two-year-olds only.
  • Sex – Race restricted to fillies.
  • Country – Five of the last twelve winners were bred in Ireland, four in Great Britain and three in the USA.
  • Colour – Nine of the last twelve winners were bay (b) and the other three chestnut (ch)
  • Starting Price – Seven of the last twelve winners returned a SP of between 6/1 and 25/1.
  • Starting Price Rank – Four of the last twelve winners were SP favourites and eight of them came from the top five in the betting.
  • Headgear – Nine of the last twelve winners wore no headgear, three of them wore first-time blinkers and two if those also wore first-time tongue-tie.
  • Draw – Nine of the last twelve winners were drawn between stall 12 and stall 22.
  • Last Run Form – Nine of the last twelve winners won on their latest run the other three finished in the first three.
  • Days since last run – Eleven of the last twelve winners had their last run between 13 and fifty-five days ago.
  • Course Form – Eleven of the last twelve winners had never run at Ascot in the past. The one winner that had won on that occasion.
  • Distance Form – Nine of the last twelve winners had at least one previous run over five furlongs, eight of them had at least one previous win over the distance.
  • Flat Form – Eleven of the last twelve winners had at least 1 previous flat win.
  • Current Season Form – Eleven of the last twelve winners had at least one win in the current season.
Recent Winners of The Queen Mary Stakes
DateGoingRunnersWinnerAgeJockey (Clm)TrainerOddsDays
Good To Firm2128/131d
Good1829/2
Good To Soft25218/125d
Good To Firm22225/133d
Good To Firm2325/126d
Soft1722/1
Good To Firm2025/2
Good To Firm2129/413d
Good To Firm2326/120d
Good27220/133d
Good14212/133d
Good To Firm1829/427d
Good To Firm13213/2
Good To Firm17225/133d
Good To Firm21220/114d
Good To Firm15211/233d
Good To Firm1724/133d
Good To Firm17211/29d
Good To Firm14213/814d
Good To Firm19216/122d
Good To Firm20213/233d
Good To Firm2024/143d
Good To Firm13220/126d
Good1722/122d
Good To Firm18210/122d

 

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What's Our Queen Mary Stakes Tips for Royal Ascot?

We've been studying the cards, form, stats, trends and more for the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot, and here's our thoughts ahead of the race:

The Queen Mary Stakes looks set to be yet another competitive 2-year old sprint with a number of future superstars set to line up on the second day of Royal Ascot.

Wesley Ward has a terrific record in this race and the US trainer has another strong hand in 2021. He’s won three of the last six renewals and he has another short-priced contender in Ruthin. This filly won over 5f at Keeneland in April and Ward is unlikely to send her all the way to Berkshire if he doesn’t believe that she can win this. Ward also sends Twilight Gleaming to this track.

Tenebrism is an interesting rival, having won on debut at Naas. The horse who finished third that day (Lord Gorgeous) has gone on to win again so the form has been franked.

Recent history suggests sticking with the US shippers and having won at Keeneland (the US track that is most often compared to European courses), Ruthin fits the bill here.

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On the day:

TWILIGHT GLEAMING 2.30 – Ascot (9/4) – We can’t not back at least one of Wesley Ward’s runners at the meeting and I think this filly looks his best chance of a winner. She hosed up at Belmont Park on her second start and to win over 5f so easily in a sub – 56.5 seconds time, means that she must be something special. Ward has won this race three times in the past 6 years and if TG can continue running how she did when last seen then I think she’ll be very hard to beat on similarly quick ground.

Yet another race where the draw is pretty vital. The top fancies are American raider CAMPANELLE who has Frankie booked to ride, O’Brien’s MORE BEAUTIFUL, SACRED and HAPPY ROMANCE make up the first four in the market.

Keith's final choice

MORE BEAUTIFUL 13:15 Ascot 6/4  – Ridden clear when recording a comfortable debut win at Naas should scoot home from the plum draw providing Ryan Moore gets on with it.

How it fared

MORE BEAUTIFUL 9th / 18 – Disappointing run Ryan Moore never really got her stoked up. Great win by Frankie on the winner running on what was perceived to be the slower part of the course after being drawn in 1  

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This is what Keith said about the 2019 Queen Mary Stakes:

Leading Contenders
CHASING DREAMS 9/2 – Made a winning start to her career with a maiden win at Newmarket in April scooting clear by five lengths.
LADY PAULINE 8/1 – American raider trained by Wesley Ward who loves to get winners at the meeting. Won by almost ten lengths on her debut over four and a half furlongs. Beaten into second place at Ascot on 1st May.
ICKWORTH 8/1 – Game filly has won both her starts in Ireland latterly a listed event at the Curragh. Has the scope for improvement but will need to if she is going to win this.
DIVINE SPIRIT 8/1 – Easy winner at Windsor when odds on in what looked a pretty ordinary novice. May be up against it in this tougher company.

My selection for the race is LADY PAULINE 8/1 each way this half-sister to Lady Aurelia, a dual winner at Royal Ascot for Ward. Can be forgiven her May defeat as she hadn’t had long to acclimatise, and it was her first turf run.

On the day LADY PAULINE was a non-runner so Keith went for ICKWORTH 8/1 each way – Godolphin have a strong hand in this and my each way pick is ICKWORTH who won a Listed race at the Curragh last time pretty comfortably on yealding ground.

What our members tipped in the Queen Mary Stakes

Each day we ask our members to select their Pick 6, their NAP for each race of the day.  We then collate all the picks, and present the top selections to our VIP members.  Here's how it went for the Queen Mary Stakes:

It's the favourite TWILIGHT GLEAMING that gets the bulk of the selections here in the first of Day Two with a fairly convincing 28.8%.

Desert Dreamer (11%) and Quick Suzy (8.2%) the best of rest.

It’s that man Ryan Moore again here on Admiral Nelson with 31.6% of your Pick 6+2 selections. Qaader next best with 25% and Lauded the only other of note from the rest.

It might be the first race of the day, but all eyes are on Final Song for this with over 27% of the votes – Divine Spirit with just over 15% and Ickworth in third with 13.3%.

Royal Ascot Queen Mary Stakes Results 

1 Quick Suzy 8/1
2 Twilight Gleaming 9/4 F
3 Cheerupsleepyjean 50/1
4 Artos 8/1
21 ran

1 Campanelle 9/2
2 Sacred 5/1
3 Caroline Dale 100/1
18 ran

1 Raffle Prize 18/1
2 Kimari 13/2
3 Final Song 6/1F
4 Liberty Beach 16/1
25 ran NR: Emten, Good Vibes, Kemble
Distances: hd, 1l, 1¼l Time: 1m 1.58s (slow by 2.58s)

Our Verdict:

Raffle Prize and Kimari battle it out to the finish line, with only a head in it, Raffle Prize under Dettori takes the honours. The favourite Final Song was just a length behind them which will have disappointed our members, of which 27% picked Final Song.

Keith’s each-way selection ICKWORTH refused to race, thankfully most bookmakers refunded the stake money.

Queen Mary Stakes (Fillies Group 2)
Distance: 5f (1100 yards) Prize (winner): £47360 Dir: Straight
Runners: 21    Going: Good To Firm    Class: Class 1 Group 2    Age Restrictions: 2yo
Winners Time: 1 mins 0.01s   Avg OR: 0     Median OR: 0     Stalls: Centre

NoPlaceDist BtStallHorseAgeORTrainerJockey (Claim)OddsBFBFP
181st22Quick Suzy (IRE)20Cromwell, Gavin PatrickCarroll, G F8/19.803.50
chased overall leader near side, ridden to challenge 1f out, ran on well to lead final 110 yards, won going away BF IP MIN 1.01 BF IP MAX 14.5
192nd1.2520Twilight Gleaming (IRE)20Ward, WesleyVelazquez, J R9/4 (Fav)3.301.96
ponied to post, overall leader near side, ridden and joined 1f out, headed and no extra final 110 yards BF IP MIN 2.12 BF IP MAX 1000
33rd1.7515Cheerupsleepyjean (FR)20Stack, J AHayes, C D50/185.0016.22
raced near side, slowly into stride and well off the pace towards rear, headway near side rail over 1f out, ran on well inside final furlong, not reach leading duo BF IP MIN 20 BF IP MAX 1000
14thNK2Artos (IRE)20II, George R ArnoldDettori, L8/128.617.40
led far side group throughout, pushed along halfway, kept on and clear in group, but no chance with leaders near side BF IP MIN 19 BF IP MAX 950
205th1.511Vertiginous (IRE)20Meehan, B JDwyer, Martin66/170.0019.37
chased near side leaders, ridden and kept on same pace final furlong, no real impression BF IP MIN 6.4 BF IP MAX 480
96th13Get Ahead20Cox, C GKirby, Adam16/120.005.61
chased leader far side throughout, kept on final furlong, no chance with leaders near side BF IP MIN 15 BF IP MAX 38
117thNSE9Illustrating20Burke, K RTudhope, Daniel11/114.224.40
prominent near side, ridden over 1f out, weakened final furlong BF IP MIN 11 BF IP MAX 50
168thNK4Orinoco River (USA)20Obrien, DonnachaRyan, Gavin28/131.698.00
chased leaders far side, kept on final furlong, no chance with leaders near side BF IP MIN 10.5 BF IP MAX 100
149thSH1Misty Ayr (IRE)20Dalgleish, KeithFanning, Joe80/180.7920.83
chased leaders far side, kept on same pace final furlong, no chance with near side leaders BF IP MIN 95 BF IP MAX 980
710thNK7Desert Dreamer20Williams, S CMurphy, Oisin9/112.543.75
raced far side, held up in last pair, kept on final furlong and 6th in group, no chance with leaders near side BF IP MIN 9.8 BF IP MAX 1000
1511thNSE10Nymphadora20Balding, A MWatson, Jason12/116.914.24
chased leaders near side, weakened inside final furlong BF IP MIN 10 BF IP MAX 950
412th0.7521Choux (IRE)20Evans, P DKelly, Shane22/129.798.60
mid-division near side, weakened inside final 2f BF IP MIN 44 BF IP MAX 1000
613th113Crazyland20Cox, C GCrouch, Hector50/150.0013.40
mid-division near side, weakened 2f out BF IP MIN 280 BF IP MAX 280
1014thHD8Harmony Rose20Condon, K JFoley, Shane80/195.0021.86
raced near side, behind most of way BF IP MIN 30 BF IP MAX 250
515th0.7518Coup De Force20Kittow, W SKeniry, L P100/1200.1133.92
chased leaders near side, ridden and weakened over 1f out BF IP MIN 55 BF IP MAX 990
1216th3.2514Jazzy Princess20Cowell, R M HMorris, Luke100/1560.0050.93
unseated rider loading, raced near side, always towards rear BF IP MIN 520 BF IP MAX 1000
2217th0.7516Yet (USA)20OBrien, A PMoore, Ryan10/112.504.60
raced near side, always towards rear BF IP MIN 14 BF IP MAX 1000
1718thSH17Poppy Petal (IRE)20Dalgleish, KeithRodriguez, Callum80/1110.0020.43
raced in mid-division near side, weakened final 2f BF IP MIN 90 BF IP MAX 100
219th1.56Beautiful Sunshine20Boughey, GeorgeSousa, Silvestre De20/122.187.35
prominent far side, pushed along halfway, ridden 2f out, weakened inside final 2f BF IP MIN 55 BF IP MAX 1000
2120thNK12White Jasmine (IRE)20Boughey, GeorgeDoyle, Hollie25/193.6116.00
wore hood and went to post early, raced near side and always in rear BF IP MIN 50 BF IP MAX 970
1321st3.255Mas Poder (IRE)20Ryan, K AKeane, C T25/129.007.67
raced far side, always behind and never a factor BF IP MIN 30 BF IP MAX 120

Queen Mary Stakes (Fillies Group 2)
Distance: 5f (1100 yards) Prize (winner): £29600 Dir: Straight
Runners: 18    Going: Good    Class: Class 1 Group 2    Age Restrictions: 2yo
Winners Time: 1 mins 0.18s   Avg OR: 0     Median OR: 0     Stalls: Centre

NoPlaceDist BtStallHorseAgeORTrainerJockey (Claim)OddsBFBFP
11st1Campanelle (IRE)20Ward, WesleyDettori, L9/28.552.91
ponied to post, raced towards far side, chased leaders, pushed along halfway, ran on inside final furlong, led towards finish BF IP MIN 1.01 BF IP MAX 32
132nd0.755Sacred20Haggas, W JDoyle, James5/18.702.62
raced towards far side, chased leaders, ridden to lead inside final furlong, headed and not quicken towards finish BF IP MIN 1.12 BF IP MAX 1000
23rd2.513Caroline Dale20Loughnane, DavidEgan, David100/1210.0021.00
chased leader in centre, pushed along halfway, ridden and every chance over 1f out, ran on one pace in 3rd inside final furlong BF IP MIN 22 BF IP MAX 990
154th1.257Sardinia Sunset (IRE)20Varian, RogerAtzeni, Andrea20/132.005.10
raced centre, led, ridden over 1f out, headed inside final furlong, no extra BF IP MIN 13.5 BF IP MAX 1000
65thHD2Happy Romance (IRE)20Hannon (Jnr), RichardLevey, S M16/123.154.68
raced towards far side, chased leaders, ridden over 1f out, weakened well inside final furlong BF IP MIN 8 BF IP MAX 1000
166thNSE16Scarlet Bear (IRE)20Dascombe, TomKingscote, Richard125/1180.0021.13
outpaced towards rear, headway over 1f out, kept on BF IP MIN 50 BF IP MAX 200
57th0.514Grammata (IRE)20Hogan, Denis GerardMurphy, Oisin50/165.009.80
chased leaders in centre, ridden and every chance over 1f out, weakened well inside final furlong BF IP MIN 6.8 BF IP MAX 1000
78th0.7515Mamba Wamba (IRE)20Nicholls, AdrianMcHugh, B25/134.005.87
slowly into stride, towards rear, headway near side of group over 1f out, never nearer BF IP MIN 19.5 BF IP MAX 1000
89thNSE18More Beautiful (USA)20OBrien, A PMoore, RyanEvens (Fav)2.181.38
raced towards near side, chased leaders, pushed along and slightly outpaced over 1f out, ridden and weakened inside final furlong BF IP MIN 1.81 BF IP MAX 1000
410th1.259Dickiedooda (IRE)20Harrington, Mrs JohnMarquand, Tom16/121.625.03
chased leaders in centre, pushed along halfway, ridden over 1f out, weakened inside final furlong BF IP MIN 19 BF IP MAX 1000
1811th3.758Star Of Emaraaty (IRE)20Ryan, K AStott, Kevin200/1361.2842.28
chased leaders in centre, ridden halfway, weakened soon after BF IP MIN 330 BF IP MAX 1000
1012th3.56Pelekai20Johnston, MFanning, Joe33/143.469.20
prominent centre, ridden over 1f out, weakened final furlong BF IP MIN 15.5 BF IP MAX 990
1413th112Sands Of Time20Johnston, MBuick, William10/113.003.65
chased leaders in centre, pushed along and weakened halfway BF IP MIN 12 BF IP MAX 1000
2014th0.7520Wings Of A Dove (IRE)20Spencer, RichardDoyle, Hollie50/171.169.82
raced near side of centre, mid-division, weakened inside final 2f BF IP MIN 20 BF IP MAX 90
1115th0.7511Risque (IRE)20Hannon (Jnr), RichardDobbs, Pat200/1805.0060.00
outpaced and always behind BF IP MIN 750 BF IP MAX 1000
1916th0.754The Good Ting20Moore, J SBishop, Charles250/11000.00200.00
unruly start, outpaced BF IP MIN 1000 BF IP MAX 1000
1217th1010Royal Approval (USA)20Ward, WesleySousa, Silvestre De33/150.008.71
ponied to post, raced in centre, centre, never closer than mid-division, weakened halfway BF IP MIN 46 BF IP MAX 220
1718thHD19Sparkling Perry20Given, J GEgan, John250/1707.7460.30
outpaced and always towards rear BF IP MIN 540 BF IP MAX 1000

Non Runners  Dandalla (IRE), Nurse Florence (IRE)

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