For some, and they may not be the most dedicated of turfistes at other times of the year, the Royal meeting is the apex of the Flat season. Now that the cachet of staging Royal Ascot has been attached to the course we can expect the sort of excited hordes last seen when the Vikings came to town.This is York's big chance as Ascot racecourse undergoes its £185m redevelopment And with great opportunity also comes great peril. In 1982, a seething crowd gathered to pay respect to Pope John Paul II. In 1739 there was the grisly theatre of Dick Turpin being hanged for his audacity on the unprotected highways between old Eboracum and London. There have been some striking public spectacles down the years on the piece of York common land they call the Knavesmire. Totesport: 3-1 Damson, 7-2 Virginia Waters, 6-1 Discuss, Maids Causeway, 8-1 others.. The firm cut Damson into 3-1 from 4-1 for the Coronation, while pushing out Virginia Waters to 7-2.CORONATION STAKES (Friday) : William Hill: 5-2 Damson, 3-1 Virginia Waters, 6-1 Discuss, Maids Causeway, 8-1 Karen's Caper, 9-1 Utterly Heaven, 10-1 others.
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Fallon had been expected to take the ride aboard Aidan O'Brien's 1,000 Guineas winner, Virginia Waters, but will instead partner David Wachman's daughter of Entrepreneur. Kieren Fallon is to be reunited with crack Irish filly Damson in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot at York on Friday. But there is a chance I might ride Harvest Warrior in the Britannia Handicap.". The only query I have would be the possibility of very fast ground."I feel he will handle it; however, with the injury he sustained last year I'd have to take a view on things next Saturday if the ground was extremely quick."David Allan's disappointment at missing out on a ride at Royal Ascot at York today was tempered when he completed a 28-1 double on No Grouse and Grandad Bill at Thirsk yesterday.Allan said: "I was going to ride Princess Kiotto in the Ascot Stakes, but she missed the cut by four, so it is a bit disappointing. Jeremy Noseda has issued a warning regarding Soldier's Tale's participation in the Wokingham Handicap, the six-furlong cavalry charge which forms the betting highlight of Saturday's card at Royal Ascot.
The Government today offered a £40 million funding package to develop a pioneering plan to tackle greenhouse gas emissions by "capturing" CO2 from power plants and storing it safely in depleted North Sea oil and gas fields. Iraqi citizens could list all the names on a website until the Iraqi government felt the time was right to have a memorial built. This would bring the huge numbers home to the people of the world.JANE GRIFFINCHORLEYWOOD, HERTFORDSHIRE The artist's eyebrow Sir: In our age of celebrity, Frida Kahlo's appeal is unsurprising ("The great bad painter", 13 June), but I have long harboured the suspicion that if she had had two eyebrows, we'd never have heard of her.TIM HINCHLIFFEBECKENHAM, KENT. She is much more likely to have first crossed the Tyne going south before passing an Ikea in Gateshead (Still England).ROD FINDLAYNEWCASTLE UPON TYNE The dead of Iraq Sir: As a middle-aged, middle-class English housewife, I continue to be shocked at the many deaths of innocent citizens in Iraq. Has anybody thought of creating a memorial to the civilian dead? The US and UK military authorities are not recording civilian deaths. I gave him directions and added that I did not want to buy any clothes.
