Talking Horses: Have Ascot been unfair? Plus Friday tips for York


Connections of British horses are having a bit of a moan about Wesley Ward’s youngsters getting some Ascot practice

Just as Royal Ascot has an official car (the Porsche Cayenne, since you ask), next week’s race-meeting now also has an official build-up controversy. You’d have thought it might be about medication, since we have so many US runners this time, but instead the subject is whether America’s Wesley Ward was given an unfair advantage when the track allowed him to work his two-year-olds up the straight on Wednesday.

Related: Record number of runners in American raiding party at Royal Ascot

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