As the 2025 Royal Ascot fixture heads into Saturday punters will be looking to end the five days on a high and there might be no better way to do that than in the very last race – with a well-backed Willie Mullins Royal Ascot runner in the Queen Alexandra Stakes.
Willie Mullins Royal Ascot Runner Well-Backed To Land The ‘Lucky Last’, With Ryan Moore Booked
If siding with trainers that have a good previous record in a race is your angle – then the Queen Alexandra Stakes has to be on your radar.
Why? Well, the final race of the 2025 Royal Ascot fixture has been a top contest for a yard that are more famed for firing in the winners at the Cheltenham Festival.
Step forward Willie Mullins, who has won the Queen Alexandra Stakes (the final Royal Ascot race) four times since 2012. With three of these having a certain Ryan Moore riding.
The pair team up again in 2025 with a horse called SOBER, so it’s no shock this former French-trained 6 year-old has been backed off the boards to give the duo another success in this contest.
Sober has also been put up jockey Frankie Dettori as his best Royal Ascot bet of the meeting. Punters will be hoping he’s saved the best for last.
Willie Mullins has trained eleven Royal Ascot winners to date – but the Queen Alexandra Stakes is his best with four coming in this contest.
With his most recent coming on Friday at the 2025 meeting. When Ethical Diamond won the Duke Of Edinburgh Stakes, with a certain Ryan Moore doing the steering.
Willie Mullins Queen Alexandra Stakes Winners
- 2022 – Stratum (William Buick)
- 2021 – Stratum (Ryan Moore)
- 2014 – Pique Sous (Ryan Moore)
- 2012 – Simenon (Ryan Moore)
Sober used to be trained in France by André Fabre but was switched to Willie Mullins in Ireland in April.
In France, Sober was a useful Group performer – winning two Group Two races – and got off the mark at the first time of asking for Mullins. When winning over hurdles at Killarney – which was also his first try over the jumps.
More runs over the sticks will be on the cards next season, but before that, Moore and Mullins will be hoping they can win the £59,400 first prize in the Queen Alexandra Stakes.
Which is the longest races at the meeting – run over 2m 5 1/2f.
Sober Horse Profile
- Trainer: Willie Mullins
- Jockey: Ryan Moore
- Owner: Oti Racing & The Why Knot Partnership
- Age: 6
- Runs: 20 (19 flat, 1 hurdles)
- Flat Wins: 8
- Career Prize Money: £307,942
Ryan Moore Has Won The Queen Alexandra Stakes FIVE Times
In addition to his three wins in the Queen Alexandra Stakes for trainer Willie Mullins, Ryan Moore has also won the race twice more and five times in total.
His other wins came for his dad Gary Moore back in 2010 with Bergo – a win that landed Moore the top jockeys’ title that year.
With his other success in the race coming only two years ago in 2023, when he rode the Joseph O’Brien-trained Dawn Rising
Ryan Moore Queen Alexandra Stakes Winners
- 2023 – Dawn Rising (Ryan Moore)
- 2021 – Stratum (Ryan Moore)
- 2014 – Pique Sous (Ryan Moore)
- 2012 – Simenon (Ryan Moore)
- 2012 – Bergo (Ryan Moore)
WATCH: Stratum Winning The 2021 Queen Alexandra Stakes, Under Ryan Moore
When Is The Queen Alexandra Stakes?
📅Date: Saturday 21st June 2025
⌚Time: 6:10pm
🏇Racecourse: Ascot
💷Winner: £59,400
📺 TV: ITV/Sky
See the full ITV Racing schedule for Royal Ascot here.
Queen Alexandra Stakes Runners 2025
- SOBER
- KING OF THE ROAD
- SAMUI
- SCOTTISH ANTHEM
- TASHKHAN
- TROOPER BISDEE
- YOUTHFUL KING
- DALLAS STAR
- PARADOXICAL
- TOBY TOPS
- WILD WAVES
Queen Alexandra Stakes Recent Winners
- 2024 – Uxmal (2/1 fav)
- 2023 – Dawn Rising (2/1 fav)
- 2022 – Stratum (10/1)
- 2021 – Stratum (4/1)
- 2020 – Who Dares Wins (Evs fav)
