Postponed gets go-ahead in Hardwicke

Postponed can get off the mark for the season by taking this afternoon’s Harwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot for Luca Cumani and jockey Adam Kirby.

Runner-up to Western Hymn in the Gordon Richards Stakes on his return this season, he was beaten just half a length behind Al Kazeem and Fascinating Rock in the Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh on his next and most recent outing.

Both of those races were run over a trip a couple of furlongs shy of his optimum, and on ground which would not have been fast enough for the four-year-old.