Keeneland-based trainer Wesley Ward has sent four horses, including SpringMeet stakes winner Twilight Gleaming (IRE) and the highly touted juvenile American Rascal, to England for the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting that begins today. Both horses are owned by Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Stables.

Ward, who has 12 wins at Royal Ascot, was the Spring Meet’s leading trainer with 12 wins.

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Horses with Keeneland racing and sales connections and other U.S.-based horses entered in races on the first two days of Royal Ascot are:

Tuesday, June 20

Race 1: Queen Anne (G1) (4-year-olds and up, 1 mile) at 9:30 a.m. ET:

• Godolphin’s Modern Games (IRE) won the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) Presented by PDJF in November at Keeneland and returned in April to finish second in the Maker’s Mark Mile (G1). William Buick will ride the 4-year-old colt for trainer Charlie Appleby.

Race 2: Coventry (G2) (2-year-olds, 6 furlongs) at 10:05 a.m.

• Another Stonestreet Stables runner trained by Ward is Fandom (GB), who won his debut at Keeneland in April by 6¾ lengths. John Velazquez will ride the colt.

Race 3: King’s Stand (G1) (3-year-olds and up, 5 furlongs) at 10:40 a.m.

• Twilight Gleaming, who is making her second trip to Royal Ascot, won Keeneland’s Giant Causeway (L) on April 15 in her 4-year-old debut. In 2021, she was second in the Queen Mary (G2) at Royal Ascot, won a stakes at Deauville in France and captured the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2) at Del Mar. Velazquez will ride for Ward.

Wednesday, June 21

Race 1: Queen Mary (G2) (2-year-old fillies, 5 furlongs) at 9:30 a.m.

• Another Ward runner, Three Chimneys Farm’s Bundchen, was second by a nose in her career debut at Keeneland on April 28. Joel Rosario will ride the daughter of Gun Runner.
• Crimson Advocate, who opened her career April 26 with a third at Keeneland then won the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies at Gulfstream Park on May 13, is trained by George Weaver. The Nyquist filly races for R. A. Hill Stable, Swinbank Stables, Black Type Thoroughbreds, RAP Racing, Chris Mara, BlackRidge Stables and Amy E. Dunne. She will be ridden by Velazquez.
• At Keeneland’s 2022 September Yearling Sale, Oracle Bloodstock, agent, paid $250,000 for Cynane from the Hinkle Farmsconsignment. The Omaha Beach filly won her May 11 debut at Belmont Park by 2¾ lengths. Javier Castellano will ride Cynane for Tom Morley, who trains her for VinLaur Racing Stables, West Paces Racing and Rainbow’s End Racing Stable.
• Michael Wilson, agent for Robert Aguiar, purchased Launch for $50,000 at the September Sale from Bridie Harrison, agent for breeder Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds. Adrian Murry trains the Omaha Beach filly for owner Giselle De Aguiar. Launch will be ridden by Kevin Stott.

Race 2: Kensington Palace Handicap (fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1 mile) at 10:05 a.m.

• At Keeneland’s 2020 January Horses of All Ages Sale, Jamie Railton Sales Agency paid $345,000 for the War Front yearling Lady Eros. Bred by Frank Hutchinson, she was consigned by Eaton Sales, agent. David Howden and Partners own Lady Eros, a 4-year-old filly who is trained by John and Thady Gosden and will be ridden by Oisin Murphy.

Race 4: Prince of Wales’s (G1) (4-year-olds and up, 1¼ miles) at 11:20 a.m.

• Classic Causeway has made three starts at Keeneland, finishing third in the 2021 Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) and unplaced in 2022 in the Coolmore Turf Mile (G1) and the Bryan Station (G3). Kenny McPeek trains the 4-year-old son of Giant’s Causeway for Kentucky West Racing and Clarke M. Cooper Family Trust. Julien Leparoux will ride.