CANNONBALL, g. 4, Catienus - No Deadline, by Skywalker almost catured the GOLDEN JUBILEE S. (Eng-G1) ROYAL ASCOT, England but ran out of room in the stretch. He lost by a neck.

Trainer Wesley Ward nearly saddled his third winner of the Royal Ascot meeting on Saturday, but Group 2 winner Art Connoisseur held off Ward’s CANNONBALL in the closing strides of the Golden Jubilee Stakes (Eng-G1). Art Connoisseur, a three-year-old Lucky Story colt who was winless in three starts since winning the Coventry Stakes (Eng-G2) at the 2008 royal meeting, rallied from off the pace and took over with about a furlong remaining under jockey Tom Queally.

Cannonball closed with a rush under Olivier Peslier but ran out of real estate and finished a neck behind the winner. Cannonball, a multiple stakes winner in the United States for owners-breeders Ken and Sarah Ramsey, finished 2 1⁄2 lengths clear of third-place finisher Lesson In Humility.