Log Out Island In Norfolk

Time/Date - 14.30hrs local time/Thursday, June 18, 2015 Racecourse/Country - Royal Ascot/UK
Surface/Distance - Turf/5f

Promising two-year-old Log Out Island is out to build on an impressive debut when taking part in the Group Two Norfolk Stakes over five furlongs at Royal Ascot, UK, on Thursday, June 18.

The Richard Hannon-trained colt made all of the running for a facile success over the same course and distance in a conditions race on April 29, in which subsequent Coventry Stakes winner Buratino was third.

Log Out Island, drawn in stall two with William Buick in the saddle for the first time, tackles 11 other juveniles including another Richard Hannon-trained runner King Of Rooks, who easily beat Buratino in a Listed contest at Sandown Park on May 28.

Richard Hannon commented: "We think Log Out Island and King Of Rooks are two smart two-year-olds, and I would not like to hazard a guess as to which is the better.

"They are the two top-rated colts in the race, they are drawn next to each and we can't split them, so we'd happily settle for a dead-heat.

"Obviously, Buratino has given the form a timely boost. Log Out Island beat him five and a half lengths on his debut at Ascot and King of Rooks five lengths when he bolted up in the National Stakes at Sandown.

"The latter was probably the stronger race, with Steady Place (third) having run well in yesterday's Windsor Castle Stakes, but all I know that both ours have plenty of speed and I just hope we are standing in the winner's circle with at least one of them."