← card16:05 Ascot
Sodexo Live! Handicap (GBBPlus Race) · 1m 3f 211y · Good to Firm
£23,193 to winner · 3yo+ · 0-100 · rated 87-100
🎯 Draw: high numbers favoured (low 28% v high 42% of wins · 40 races)
🏁 Result won by 4 ¼ · time 2m 32.78sTracked leader, travelled strongly into lead well over 1f out, ridden clear final furlong, comfortably
📍 Course guide
Short run-in on the round course; improved straight drainage favours well-positioned front-runners.
Flat · top trainers
A M Balding 12% (201) · J & T Gosden 13% (166) · W J Haggas 13% (139) · A P O'Brien 13% (137)
Flat · top jockeys
Oisin Murphy 14% (187) · R L Moore 17% (138) · W Buick 12% (176) · James Doyle 13% (127)
3-year course record · attheraces guides

7 Al Azd (7)
9st-5lb · OR 100 · 3yo
Ray Dawson · R Varian · b
✓6Dtrkdstgngclsdraw
1st/9 ran 13/8
form 221162

9 Study Of Words (4)
8st-12lb · OR 93 · 3yo
Billy Loughnane · C Appleby
✓4trkdstgngcls
2nd/9 ran +4 ¼ 5/1
form 521-35

2 Merveilleux Lapin (5)
9st-12lb · OR 96 · 4yo
Callum Rodriguez · Owen Burrows
✓4trkdstgngcls
3rd/9 ran +nk 6/1
form 1/530-24

6 Fantasy Believer (6)
9st-6lb · OR 90 · 9yo
Oisin Murphy · E Walker
✓4Ctrkdstcls
4th/9 ran +nk 25/1
form 7160-50

5 Dancing In Paris (3)
9st-7lb · OR 91 · 6yo
D Egan · Ian Williams
✓3Ctrkcls
5th/9 ran 16/1
form 8240-90

1 French Duke (1)
10st-2lb · OR 100 · 5yo
James Doyle · H Al Jehani · h
✓5Dtrkdstgngcls
6th/9 ran 8/1
form 803-160

8 Elsass (8)
9st-3lb · OR 87 · 4yo
J Mitchell · C Johnston
✓4trkdstgngdraw
7th/9 ran 12/1
form 20-1103

4 Flying Frontier (2)
9st-9lb · OR 93 · 6yo
H Crouch · J Tate
✓3trkgngcls
8th/9 ran 10/1
form 919-844

3 Theory Of Tides (9)
9st-10lb · OR 94 · 5yo
Saffie Osborne · J A Osborne
✓5trkdstgngclsdraw
9th/9 ran 7/1
form 000/42-2
Race note