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The 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes winner Field Of Gold is among 38 entries alongside Lockinge winner Lead Artist, Sussex Stakes winner Qirat and Prix Rothschild winner Fallen Angel. French challenger Facteur Cheval has been second in the race for the last two years running and is entered again for Jerome Reynier.
Harry Eustace has made no secret of the fact that it’s all roads leading back to QIPCO British Champions Day for his Ascot aficionado, Docklands.
WHAT A START TO #ROYALASCOT! PHOTO FINISH IN THE QUEEN ANNE STAKES... AND IT GOES TO DOCKLANDS! pic.twitter.com/SeG6nFmM2R
— At The Races (@AtTheRaces) June 17, 2025
The surprise package of this year’s Queen Anne—who mugged Rosallion on the line in June—has always saved his best for the Berkshire stage. Goodwood, by contrast, proved a rather forgettable detour, but with a potential French foray on the horizon, it’s very much a case of peaking at precisely the right time for a crack at this.
“Ascot just brings out the best in him—it always has,” said Eustace. “So the plan’s been pretty straightforward: build everything around Champions Day.
“He had his spin at Goodwood, we might dip our toe in across the Channel next, and then it’ll be a case of freshening him up and getting him back to his favourite playground.”
Eustace isn’t a stranger to Champions Day—Docklands ran in the Balmoral a couple of years back—but this time the ambitions feel a little loftier.
“To have a couple of live chances going into a meeting of that calibre—it’s what you hope for when you start the season,” he added.
Queen Elizabeth II Stakes
Sponsored By Qipco (British Champions Mile) (Group 1) (Str)
£1,100,000 guaranteed, 3yo plus, 1m, Class 1
38 entries
Going:
NO. FORM HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER JOCKEY
1 16-166 Carl Spackler 5 9-6 John & Thady Gosden
2 835943 Checkandchallenge 6 9-6 William Knight
3 87-362 Cicero's Gift 5 9-6 Charles Hills
4 4-1128 Dancing Gemini 4 9-6 Roger Teal
5 011-91 Diego Velazquez 4 9-6 A P O'Brien
6 0-2315 Docklands 5 9-6 Harry Eustace
7 2-3766 Facteur Cheval 6 9-6 J Reynier
8 1-4562 Lake Forest 4 9-6 William Haggas
9 12-817 Lead Artist 4 9-6 John & Thady Gosden
10 3-1121 More Thunder 4 9-6 William Haggas
11 21-111 My Cloud 4 9-6 Roger Varian
12 20-211 Never So Brave 4 9-6 Andrew Balding
13 -31815 Persica 4 9-6 Richard Hannon
14 22-201 Qirat 4 9-6 Ralph Beckett
15 45-101 Quddwah 5 9-6 Simon & Ed Crisford
16 11-322 Rosallion 4 9-6 Richard Hannon
17 8/912- Royal Scotsman 5 9-6 Oliver Cole
18 111-12 Sardinian Warrior 4 9-6 John & Thady Gosden
19 -56119 Skukuza 4 9-6 Ed Dunlop
20 0021-3 Volterra 4 9-6 Kevin Ryan
21 /4-111 Zabiari 1 4 9-6 F-H Graffard
22 7-132 Alakazi 3 9-3 J P Murtagh
23 2-1191 Delacroix 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
24 12-99 Expanded 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
25 24-631 Fallen Angel 4 9-3 K R Burke
26 -12114 Field Of Gold 3 9-3 John & Thady Gosden
27 1-1123 Henri Matisse 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
28 11-354 Hotazhell 3 9-3 Mrs John Harrington
29 11611 Opera Ballo 3 9-3 Charlie Appleby
30 1-511 Sallaal 3 9-3 Roger Varian
31 31-765 Scorthy Champ 3 9-3 Joseph O'Brien
32 0-0621 Seagulls Eleven 3 9-3 Hugo Palmer
33 113-27 Tamfana 4 9-3 David Menuisier
34 11-603 The Lion In Winter 3 9-3 A P O'Brien
35 12-442 Cathedral 3 9-0 Kevin Philippart De Foy
36 1-2465 Exactly 3 9-0 A P O'Brien
37 2-8322 January 3 9-0 A P O'Brien
38 -61211 Whirl 3 9-0 A P O'Brien
