← card17:25 Ascot
Sodexo Live! Handicap · 7f · Good (Good to Firm in places)
£13,425 to winner · 3yo only · 0-85 · rated 73-87
🎯 Draw: high numbers favoured (low 31% v high 44% of wins · 192 races)
🏁 Result won by nk · time 1m 29.43sBumped soon after start, towards rear, headway on far side form 2f out, narrowly led inside final furlong, faced sustained challenge inside final 110yds, held on gamely
📍 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

1 First Legion (1)
9st-11lb · OR 87 · 3yo
Shane Foley · R Hannon
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1st/8 ran 11/2
form 3-64545

2 Raging Raj (2)
9st-9lb · OR 85 · 3yo
Lewis Edmunds · M Herrington
✓5Dtrkdstgngcls
2nd/8 ran +nk 11/2
form 763151

6 Golden Brown (8)
9st-5lb · OR 81 · 3yo
Tom Marquand · E Walker
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3rd/8 ran +1 ½ 10/1
form 02-2186

9 You Sexy Thing (6)
8st-11lb · OR 73 · 3yo
Saffie Osborne · R Spencer
✓5Dtrkdstclsdraw
4th/8 ran +hd 25/1
form 56130-6

3 Luansobe (7)
9st-6lb · OR 82 · 3yo
Paddy Bradley · C Fellowes
✓5Dtrkdstclsdraw

7 Sapphire Steps (9)
9st-2lb · OR 78 · 3yo
P J Dobbs · R Hannon
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6th/8 ran 12/1
form 77-5840

4 Hambelton (4)
9st-6lb · OR 82 · 3yo
Luke McAteer · D Marnane
✓4trkdstgngcls

5 Star Of Commala (3)
9st-6lb · OR 82 · 3yo
Molly Keegan-Price · Jane Chapple-Hyam
✓4Dtrkdstcls

8 King Of Thunder (5)
9st-2lb · OR 78 · 3yo
Non Runner · H Palmer
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Race note