St James’s Palace Tips – Royal Ascot 2020

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When is the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot 2020?

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Royal Ascot Saturday 20th June 3.00pm

The St James’s Palace Stakes (Group 1)

Age: 3yo colts

Distance: 1 Mile

Weights – 9st

Prize: £538,750

History of the St James’s Palace Stakes race at Royal Ascot

This Grade 1 race was first run in 1834 and named after the royal Tudor residence, St James Palace. The first race was allowed a walkover when Plenipotentiary was the only entrant in the race. Jumping forward to 1971, the race was graded as a Grade 2 race and it wasn’t until 1988 that it was upgraded to a Grade 1.

The St James Palace Stakes is contested by the leading three-year-old colts and competitors have often run in the 2000 Guineas, the most notable winner in recent years was the great Frankel in 2011 under Tom Queally.

The most successful jockey has been Michael Kinane with 6 wins between 1982 and 2007.

The trainer with the most wins is Aidan O’Brien with 8 winners so far the most recent being last year’s winner Circus Maximus.

Royal Ascot St James’s Palace Stakes Trends and Statistics

Here are the St James’s Palace Stakes 12 year Trends and Statistics:

Age – Race restricted to three-year-olds.
Sex – Race restricted to colts.
Country – Six of the last twelve winners were bred in Ireland, five in Great Britain and one in the USA. Nine of the last twelve winners have had an Irish sire.
Colour – Eight of the last twelve winners have been bay (b), two were chestnut (ch) and one each grey (gr) and brown (br).
Starting Price (SP) – Ten of the last twelve winners have returned a SP of 6/1 or less.
Starting Price Rank – Ten of the last twelve winners have been in the top three in the betting with eight of them starting favourite. The other four were all in the first five in the betting at the off.
Headgear – Eleven of the last twelve winners wore no headgear. The other one was in first-time blinkers.
Draw – Nine of the last twelve winners have been drawn in stall 7 or lower. The other one came from stall 15 but there has only been one race in the last twelve years with more than twelve runners.
Last Run Form – Seven of the last twelve winners won their most recent race.
Days since last run – All of the last twelve winners had raced within the last 45 days.
Course Form – Only four of the last twelve winners had a previous run at Ascot and all four had won at the course.
Distance Form – Eleven of the last twelve winners had at least one previous run over one mile and at least one previous win over one mile.
Flat Form – All of the last twelve winners had at least three previous flat runs and eleven of them had at least two previous flat wins.
Official Rating – Only ten of the last twelve winners had a BHA rating all of them were rated between 109 and 130.
Group Wins – Nine of the last twelve winners had won at least a Group 3 race and eight of them had won a Group 1.
Current Season Form – Eleven of the last twelve winners had at least two runs and at least one win in the current season.

Recent Winners of The St James’s Palace Stakes

Date	Winner	Jockey	Trainer	Odds	Going	Track	Race Type	Distance	Class	No.	W-Time	OR
18.Jun.19	Circus Maximus (IRE)	Moore, Ryan	OBrien, A P	10/1	Good	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	11	99.9	110
19.Jun.18	Without Parole	Dettori, L	Gosden, J H M	9/4 F	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	10	98.64	109
20.Jun.17	Barney Roy	Doyle, James	Hannon (Jnr), Richard	5/2	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	8	97.22	118
14.Jun.16	Galileo Gold	Dettori, L	Palmer, Hugo	6/1	Soft	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	7	104.01	120
16.Jun.15	Gleneagles (IRE)	Moore, Ryan	OBrien, A P	8/15 F	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	5	98.86	122
17.Jun.14	Kingman	Doyle, James	Gosden, J H M	8/11 F	Good	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	7	99.06	125
18.Jun.13	Dawn Approach (IRE)	Manning, K J	Bolger, J S	5/4 F	Good	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	9	99.23	125
19.Jun.12	Most Improved (IRE)	Fallon, K	Meehan, B J	9/1	Good To Soft	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	16	100.14	115
14.Jun.11	Frankel	Queally, T P	Cecil, H R A	30/100 F	Good	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	9	99.24	130
15.Jun.10	Canford Cliffs (IRE)	Hughes, Richard	Hannon, R	11/4 JF	Good	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	9	99.55	122
16.Jun.09	Mastercraftsman (IRE)	Murtagh, J	OBrien, A P	5/6 F	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	10	99.21	0
17.Jun.08	Henrythenavigator (USA)	Murtagh, J	OBrien, A P	4/7 F	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	8	98.7	0
19.Jun.07	Excellent Art	Spencer, Jamie	OBrien, A P	8/1	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	8	99.33	0
20.Jun.06	Araafa (IRE)	Munro, Alan	Noseda, J	2/1 F	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	11	99.59	116
14.Jun.05	Shamardal (USA)	McEvoy, Kerrin	Suroor, Saeed Bin	7/4 F	Good To Firm	York	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	8	97.18	123
15.Jun.04	Azamour (IRE)	Kinane, M J	Oxx, John M	9/2	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	11	99.02	0
17.Jun.03	Zafeen (FR)	Holland, Darryll	Channon, M R	8/1	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	11	99.91	117
18.Jun.02	Rock Of Gibraltar (IRE)	Kinane, M J	OBrien, A P	4/5 F	Good	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	9	100.91	0
19.Jun.01	Black Minnaloushe (USA)	Murtagh, J	OBrien, A P	8/1	Good	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	11	101.37	0
20.Jun.00	Giants Causeway (USA)	Kinane, M J	OBrien, A P	7/2 F	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	11	102.61	0
15.Jun.99	Sendawar (IRE)	Mosse, G	Royer-Dupre, A De	2/1 F	Good To Firm	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	11	99.99	0
16.Jun.98	Dr Fong (USA)	Fallon, K	Cecil, H R A	4/1	Good To Soft	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	8	101.33	0
17.Jun.97	Starborough	Dettori, L	Loder, D R	11/2	Good	Ascot	Non-Handicap	1m	Gr1	8	99.18	0

The runners in the St James’s Palace Stakes

Entries for this race will ‘declare’ on 18th June 2020

We will add the runners for the St Jame’s Palace Stakes as soon as they become available

What’s Keith’s St James’s Palace Stakes Tips for Royal Ascot 2020?

With the uncertainty of whether this race will be run due to the current coronavirus situation in the UK, it’s hard to predict selections for the upcoming St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

As soon as the picture is clearer, we will post Keith’s tips for the St James’s Palace Stakes here.

Who is your Royal Ascot Tipster?

Keith Bond is our resident pro tipster here at FRT Towers. Keith lives and breathes horse racing, having begun his love of horse racing over 40 years ago with a part time job at Catterick Racecourse, as one of three fourteen year-olds looking after two jumps and a hurdle.

Over the years, Keith has been a regular at the northern tracks attending countless race meetings and building up a network of contacts, and a portfolio of systems and strategies.

He was one of the co-founders of Free Racing Tips all the way back in 2008, and his free tips are now backed by more than seventy thousand FRT members every single day.

“Thanks Keith – It’s great to be part of an amazing group of people all after the same thing, passing on tips to beat the bookies”

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“You offer some great tips, some fantastic outsiders tipped up as well. Most tipsters just put up favourites. Well done and keep up the good work”

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What did Keith Tip in the 2019 St James’s Palace Stakes?

Leading Contenders

TOO DARN HOT 6/4 – The top two-year-old last term winning all his races including the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes. Had a delayed start to his season missing both the Greenham and the 2000 Guineas due to heat in a splint bone. Second in the Dante at York last time when he clearly didn’t stay the trip.

MAGNA GRECIA 7/4 – Dual Group 1 winner including the 2000 Guineas. Only defeat came on fast going last season. Massive player if there is a little juice in the ground.

SKARDU 6/1 – Craven stakes winner in April but was over four lengths behind MAGNA GRECIA in the Guineas so well held on that performance

CALYX 10/1 – Has won all three races to date but unraced at further than six furlongs. May find stamina limitations over this mile trip.

Conclusion

TOO DARN HOT 6/4 found things tough in the Dante but this drop back to a mile will put his career back on track.

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What our members tipped in the 2019 St James’s Palace 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 St James’s Palace Stakes 2020:

Too Darn Hot looks to be too hot here with over 40% of the votes, but a fair bit of love for Phoenix of Spain too

Royal Ascot St James’s Palace Stakes Results 2019

1 Circus Maximus 10/1
2 King Of Comedy 4/1
3 Too Darn Hot 2/1F
11 ran Distances: nk, ¾l, ½l
Time: 1m 39.90s (slow by 0.90s)

Our verdict:
What a race! Keeping us on the edge of our seats until the finish line, Circus Maximus kept with the front runners until taking the lead from Fox Champion. Then four challengers try to take the lead, however, If it was a little longer, King of Comedy might have snatched it, but Circus Maximus held on to give the Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore combination a second win of the opening day of Royal Ascot 2019 in the St James’s Palace Stakes.

Watch the thrilling finish of the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot 2019, and watch Circus Maximus win the race by a neck from King of Comedy.