The heat's off old-timer Takeover Target for Sat's Golden Jubilee Stks at Royal Ascot. Most analysts reckon he can't win, though the price assessors at TAB Sportsbet are probably hoping he doesn't get to the line in first place. 'Half the money that has been invested on the Golden Jubilee so far has been on Takeover Target," says TAB Sportsbet's Glenn Munsie. 'The best price he's been was $10 and he is into $7.50. And a punter had a $1000 double on Scenic Blast in the King's Stand the other
The heat's off old-timer Takeover Target for Sat's Golden Jubilee Stks at Royal Ascot. Most analysts reckon he can't win, though the price assessors at TAB Sportsbet are probably hoping he doesn't get to the line in first place. 'Half the money that has been invested on the Golden Jubilee so far has been on Takeover Target," says TAB Sportsbet's Glenn Munsie. 'The best price he's been was $10 and he is into $7.50. And a punter had a $1000 double on Scenic Blast in the King's Stand the other night into Takeover Target at $35...We are bracing ourselves for Takeover Target. If he is to win then it will be a much worse result than Scenic Blast's King's Stand victory, and it was a massive loser for us when it firmed from $6.50 to start at $3.25.'
It's poetic...History was made at Royal Ascot overnight when super-stayer Yeats raced into the record books to land his fourth consecutive win in the Grp 1 Royal Ascot Gold Cup. Trained by Aidan O'Brien for Mrs John Magnier and Mrs David Nagle, the 8YO son of Sadler's Wells looked as good as ever in drawing clear to win the marathon event by 3.5 lens, running half a second quicker than he did last year. Yeats paid $2.80 on the NSW TAB.