Thorough stayer Jukebox Jive can make a splash in the Ascot Stakes

Jamie Osborne
Ascot Stakes

This race tends to go to a jumps trainer, and heaven knows there are plenty of them involved this time, including Willie Mullins inevitably, plus Gordon Elliott, Noel Meade and Nicky Henderson. This time however, perhaps it will go to a jumps jockey, or rather a former jumps jockey.

Jukebox Jive is a thorough stayer who was winning over 2m2f in mid-summer as a three-year-old. Third in a decent Listed race at Sandown last July, he's slipped to an attractive mark and big handicap specialist Jamie Osborne, who bought him late last year for the fun-loving Melbourne Ten partnership, has said he will have him very fit for his first run since Meydan in February.