Rogue Legend poised to join growing Resolute Racing squad

John Stewart’s Resolute Racing have swooped for Royal Ascot prospect Rogue Legend, with the purchase of the exciting youngster poised to be confirmed in the next week.

Paddy Twomey’s two-year-old has won twice since narrowly beaten on debut and was impressive in the silks of the Rogues Gallery syndicate – who will be represented by James Owen’s Rogue Impact in the Betfred Derby on Saturday – in a hot race at Cork recently.

However, Rogue Legend will sport the colours of the American operation at the Royal meeting, pending blood test results which are expected to be confirmed early next week.

Stewart said: “I was impressed with his recent performance on the track and plan to run him in one of the two-year-old sprint races at Royal Ascot. We will enter him in all of them and then pick the race.

“With a Timeform rating of 104 he is one of the top two-year-old sprint horses in Europe and I expect for him to be very competitive.”

Stewart has previously stated his ambition to make Resolute Racing a force on the world stage and last year acquired the Francis-Henri Graffard-trained Goliath after his victory in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.

The American was the source of conversation on X last week when inadvertently suggesting he had struck a deal to purchase Richard Hannon’s Queen Anne hope Rosallion.

But he instead continues his association with Twomey having previously recruited Irish 1,000 Guineas runner-up A Lilac Rolla from the Irish handler, with the four-year-old poised to make her first appearance for Bill Mott in Saturday’s Just A Game Stakes at Saratoga.