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Kemari belied his relative inexperience to win the G2 Queen’s Vase over a mile and six furlongs on just his third start.
The Godolphin-owned Kemari (15/2) was ridden by William Buick – who was enjoying his 27th Royal Ascot winner – and the combination were always in the right place, sitting just off the pace before striding clear in the home straight.

Favourite Wordsworth (10/3), for Ryan Moore and Aidan O'Brien, was beaten a length and a half in second, with a further length and a quarter back to Stowell (12/1) in third.

Victory for Kemari provided trainer Charlie Appleby with a 10th Royal Ascot victory, and a third in this race for Godolphin.

Appleby said: "I must give the team at home a lot of credit for this - he has been a challenging horse during the course of the winter. He was gelded, and had his hood on for his first start, but full credit to them, they've done a great job.

"And William [Buick] - he praised him highly after that win at Yarmouth. I have to say, I sat on the fence slightly and felt he was a horse who was progressing, but was he progressing quickly enough to be able to step up into today's league?

"He has proved me wrong and William right, which is the great thing about having a team such as we've got, we all put our opinions in and hopefully we get the right result. But the horse is definitely a horse who's going the right way.

"I hope he will make up into a Cup horse for next year. This year - as we all know, in the past few years three-year-olds in the Melbourne Cup, they have produced the goods. Whether he gets to that level, we'll see, but we'll enjoy today and have the discussions with our principals and managers during the next few weeks and map the autumn out. He's got a profile that is working in that direction, anyway."

Buick said: "I had a nice draw and got a good position out of the gates. The pace took me to where I needed to be, and he really quickened up well. It actually surprised me how well he quickened.

"He is learning on the job and I thought it was a good quality race. Charlie always thought this race would suit him and that was just a very, very good performance.

"He is a horse we don't really know a lot about, but he did that very well. He had a lovely trip around and gets in that lovely rhythm which stayers need to do.

"I think Kemari is quite a straightforward horse. I would say he is [Melbourne Cup type]. The team know that race well and I would be very surprised if they don't have one eye on that race."


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