William Buick

He was second, yes, the other day in the summer stakes.

William Buick will ride.

I think Godolphin and William Buick found a way to beat us.

I think we ran second to them in, I think, four Group 1s in the last five weeks.

So if you can't beat them, might as well join them.

on Saturday King of Light yeah look Rory's definitely picked the obvious one in King of Light considering it will go on the ground I thought Ainsley State didn't run too bad behind him at Haydock on heavy ground as well was only a length and a half behind him coming from the middle of the track at a bigger price maybe to take on King of Light but I wasn't mad strong on the race either

okay fair enough okay quite weak on that race yes the error does go back on saturday night into sunday uh we're meeting the first race on sunday half 12 a goalie on a sunday afternoon oh yes right on to race two donny it's uh the 130 it is the big one we're staying kicking off with the big group one it's the Futurity Stakes Aidan O'Brien and Noble Exhibit is the shortest pricing 6-5 favour for this going for a hat trick Burning Up for Karl Berkus 3-1 Breacher has been well backed anti-post his rating of 103 will suggest he's got a bit of work to do but he's been well backed at 15-2 8-1 Al Hudeba for Charlie Appie and William Buick I think he'll have slightly different conditions when winning on firm ground at Woodbine when last seen and it's 12s bar okay Ruby thoughts on the final group one on turf this season

And I'm going to go 12s bar, PK.

I think, I suppose looking at form, maybe it's the ground that Undead joined Sakaya behind Folsom Blue in the National Stakes, but he was the choice of Ryan Moore on that occasion, so he would look slightly different.

Bengal Tiger, won't get that wrong.

Favourite for this race.

If you haven't seen his maiden win and you just read the form, you'll see he's won by what? How many lengths? would urge you to look back at that race and see how it developed I'm sure the lads are about to talk about it he's the 6-4 favourite 2-1 Paddy Toomey's high corporate court Billy Misa over to ride and William Buick will ride for the Fahis aboard Crystal Queen who's 7-1 it's 8 and bigger the rest it is is it Ruby first? I've forgotten we've done so much chatting no thank you

Rory it's you first thank you very much pleasure I'm just sending a message to my missus who's trying to ring me in the middle of a podcast

hell of a spin for Adrian Keatley, Moonrise, Andrew Bording, Moussab, Richard Fahey, Nabati for Godolphin, Francis Graffard's got prime time, maybe virtually the whole field heroes, Velozi, Paddy Toomey, any that you particularly like the look of?

Well, I've been a massive fan of Nabati all season long, and I think I've said it on this podcast, I've said it on other podcasts, and I've said it on television, I don't think we've seen how good this horse is yet, because I don't think he's, I know it sounds ridiculous, and people will, Charlie Affleby and William Buick will tell Rishi you're an idiot, But I don't think he's quite developed yet.

I don't think he's quite understood exactly what's required.

All his wins, he seems to get himself, or all his performances, he gets himself in a position and is just getting there.

But sometimes I look at him and I think he's on the wrong lead.

He's not quite picking up in the style.

William Buick's changing his hands and he hasn't quite realised what he...

He wants, and I feel that Nibati has more to give, yet he's achieved a high level already.

He's still £8 higher than that, but I thought those group and listed runs were fairly solid from Big Cigar, so I thought he might beat Bullet Snap.

And the other shorty, he's in the 2:45, not a shorty, but Pallada for William Buick and Charlie Appleby is favorite, um, in that handicap over seven furlongs.

But I thought the absolute outsider of the field, Redemption Road, having his second start for Mike Keady, was with David Marnane, does handle it eager on the ground.

I thought with that run under his belt for new connections, Safi Osborne on board, was 40 to 1, PK, before we started this podcast.

No, it really wasn't.

I mean, I just want to dwell on Ombudsman and talk of New York again, if you don't mind, because Ombudsman, that delay, sort of waiting to utilise his turn of foot, the confidence that William Buick exuded, it was just so thrilling to watch.

And sort of really leaving Calandecan behind.

Afterwards, Francis Graffard was feeling that maybe Calandecan wasn't operating at quite the peak as of previously.

So it's just that slight subtle drop in the early pace that made all the difference.

Calandagan was still the fastest horse in the penultimate furlong as he almost always is at Ascot.

But the difference here was William Buick was in front of him and behind a slower pace.

And when he gets good ground like this, Ombudsman is one of the best 10 furlong horses to ever run at Ascot, certainly that we've ever recorded.

... we had a huge break

... sorry, as, as William, William Buick is an interesting booking as well.

Yeah, absolutely.

Kev, what do you make of the Sprint?