Key occasions
3.05pm QUEEN’S VASE betting
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Asmarani 7/2
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Carmers 9/2
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Shackleton 11/2
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Pinhole 7/1
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Rahiebb 8/1
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Scandinavia 12/1
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Additional 16/1
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Spinning Wheel 20/1
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Titanium Emperor 28/1
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66-1 BAR – 13 Runners
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Full Oddschecker betting right here: horse-racing/royal-ascot/15:05/winner
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Market Mover: Carmers 7/1 into 9/2
Greg Wooden
3.05pm QUEEN’S VASE preview
The primary important three-year-old race of the season at a mile and three-quarters, and whereas Carmers took the Yeats Stakes at Navan in Might over a furlong shorter, each different runner is stepping up a minimum of two furlongs in journey. Many are prone to publish a brand new career-best in consequence, together with Aidan O’Brien’s Shackleton, a son of Camelot who was fourth of 5 on his return to motion over 10 furlongs on the Curragh however was stopped in his run and regarded certain to enhance for a step up in journey.
Roger Varian’s Rahiebb is available in with a reasonably related profile to the coach’s Eldar Eldarov, who landed this in 2022 and went on to win the St Leger, whereas Asmarani, a product of the late Aga Khan IV’s breeding operation whose pedigree is laden with stamina, is one other very attention-grabbing contender for Francis-Henri Graffard. He was runner-up to a next-time winner within the Group Three Prix Hocquart at Longchamp in Might, is second-in on Timeform rankings on that kind and is sort of sure to seek out lots extra now that he goes past a mile-and-a-half. Satan’s Advocate, whose dam was a winner at this journey, was fourth in the Dante at York and is one other to contemplate together with O’Brien’s second-string Scandinavia, a maiden winner by Justify out of a Galileo mare, in what appears, on paper a minimum of, to be a cracking renewal of this race.
SELECTION: ASMARANI
2.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES: True Love beats 100-1 shot
1 True Love (R L Moore) 9-4 Fav
2 Flowerhead (C T Keane) 100-1
3 Lennilu (Luis Saez) 11-2
23 ran
Non Runners: 1,6
2.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES
They usually’re off … this shall be over very fast … Zelaina is quick away as is Lennilu … True Love is ridden alongside … however she’s ending properly and goes on keep on strongly to win. That’s one other winner for Aidan O’Brien!
Caroline Davies, the Guardian’s royal correspondent, has written on the information from earlier this afternoon that the Princess of Wales has withdrawn from attending Royal Ascot on the final minute.
2.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES betting
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True Love 5/2
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Zelaina 7/2
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Society Kiss 6/1
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Spicy Marg 8/1
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Cardiff By The Sea 11/1
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Lennilu 12/1
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Staya 18/1
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Harry’s Lady 20/1
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Love Olivia 25/1
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BAR 33/1 – 21 Runners
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Full betting right here: horse-racing/royal-ascot/14:30/winner
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Market Mover: Cardiff By The Sea 18/1 into 11/1
Greg Wooden
2.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES preview
Royal Ascot gives all method of various challenges for kind college students and the duty right here is to determine the winner in an enormous subject of juvenile fillies that – excluding a few rank outsiders – have all had both one, two or no races in any respect. Judging the relative deserves of lightly-raced two-year-olds is a difficult puzzle that tends to contain plenty of trial and error, however there was little doubt that Karl Burke’s Zelaina would set off because the favorite for this race since she all of the working to win a maiden at Nottingham earlier this month by almost three lengths. She value £650k on the breeze-ups earlier this 12 months and was nonetheless displaying indicators of inexperience at Nottingham, so she could be anticipated to enhance considerably for the run (Timeform added a capital “P” to her score, suggesting that she is open to rather more than regular enchancment, they usually don’t hand these out willy-nilly). Wesley Ward has despatched 4 winners of this race over from his base in america, and whereas he’s lacking from the assembly this 12 months, there’s a nonetheless an American presence because of Patrick Biancone’s Lennilu. Biancone gained consecutive Arcs in 1983 and 1984 with All Alongside and Sagace, however has now been coaching within the States for greater than twenty years.
Lennilu certified to run by way of the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies at Gulfstream, which you’ll be able to watch – with commentary in Spanish, because it’s the one one I may discover – here, and Timeform had been sufficiently impressed by that run to make her their second-top runner within the race on rankings behind Aidan O’Brien’s True Love. Lennilu’s work rider and groom for the journey, by the way, would be the coach’s daughter, Andie, whose major job is as a reporter and analyst on the American racing channel, FanDuel TV. True Love, in the meantime, had her form behind stable-companion Gstaad at Navan in Might severely boosted on Tuesday when Gstaad ran out a cushty winner of the Coventry Stakes. A raft of different contenders with a single run and win to their title embrace Spicy Marg and Staya, and whereas Spicy Marg took a Newmarket novice that has produced two Royal Ascot winners within the final three years, Staya additionally put up a taking efficiency in her Yarmouth maiden. She travelled properly, eased by in the direction of the lead, quickened when required and clocked an honest time for a debutant, so a value of round 16-1 is a good each-way choice in an open race.
SELECTION: STAYA
Queen’s Hat Stakes 2pm consequence
1. Inexperienced (once more) 12-1.
Because the royal procession makes its method down the monitor I’m responsibility certain to remind my common reader of the Serpentine gallery exhibition by artist Mark Wallinger I noticed again in 1994 when considered one of his installations, referred to as ‘Royal Ascot’, consisted of a sequence of video displays on high of wheeled flight instances, every isolating the royal carriage’s leisurely progress down the monitor on the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (respectively, because it was then) of the assembly with, as the British Council points out in their description of the artwork, “the distinction from daily is barely discernible, simply because the 4 commentaries merge in a confused blather.”
6.10pm WINDSOR CASTLE STAKES preview
A giant subject of two-year-olds for the ultimate race on Wednesday, however a really apparent standout on the rankings as Rogue Legend has a minimum of a stone in hand of each different runner on Timeform’s figures and would have been a reside runner in Tuesday’s Group Two Coventry Stakes on that evaluation. He raced for a syndicate within the Rogues Gallery Racing operation for his first three begins, having been picked up for 55k gns (£57k) as a yearling, and was then offered to American proprietor John Stewart’s Resolute Racing operation an undisclosed sum, which nearly actually went a way into seven figures.
If there may be going to be one to enhance previous him, the market suggests it will likely be Andrew Balding’s Outdated Is Gold, with James Doyle using within the Wathnan Racing colors that he steered to a double within the ultimate two races yesterday. He took the Two-Year-Old Trophy at Beverley in Might, whereas Rogue Legend’s former possession group can have excessive hopes of an enormous run from Rogue Supremacy, a straightforward winner of his solely race thus far at Wetherby.
SELECTION: ROGUE LEGEND
Greg Wooden
5.35pm KENSINGTON PALACE STAKES HANDICAP, FILLIES & MARES preview
John & Thady Gosden obtained off to a flier yesterday with two winners on the opening day card and his week will get even higher right here if Rainbows Edge, within the royal colors, can provide the King & Queen their second success at this assembly in three years. Her value of round 4-1 is, pretty inevitably, some extent or two shorter than it ought to be given the aggressive nature of this race, however she does a minimum of boast a lightly-raced and progressive four-race profile, having rounded off her three-year-old marketing campaign with a strong second-place end in a Listed race at Salisbury earlier than profitable a handicap over in the present day’s monitor and journey seven weeks in the past. She is carefully matched with the re-opposing Arisaig on that kind, whereas different apparent contenders on current kind embrace James Fanshawe’s Sky Safari, who may be very flippantly raced on turf and has a particular probability if she settles higher for Saffie Osborne than she did for Danny Muscutt final time.
At greater costs, in the meantime, Kayhana bids so as to add a Royal Ascot winner to her coach Gavin Cromwell’s success within the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March, whereas my eye was additionally drawn to Stephen Thorne’s Impartial Skilled, at round 25-1. She has extra miles on the clock than many of those however is within the early phases of her profession with Thorne, who has a top-notch strike-rate already in simply his second season with a licence and has additionally achieved properly with recruits from elsewhere. She obtained off the mark for her new secure Naas final time, and posted an honest time within the course of.
SELECTION: INDEPENDENT EXPERT
Greg Wooden
5pm ROYAL HUNT CUP HANDICAP preview
That is at all times some of the aggressive and eagerly-awaited handicaps of the season and many of the runners can have been ready solely with this race in thoughts. That mentioned, nevertheless, the minimal mark to be moderately certain of getting a run lately is within the low 90s – and this 12 months it’s 94, which is bordering on Group-class capability – so the great previous days when a handicapping maestro just like the late Reg Akehurst may slide one thing in on the backside of the weights off a mark within the late 70s are absolutely gone for good. That mentioned, Roger Varian’s My Cloud, the 4-1 favorite, has simply 5 runs within the e book, however has been both first or second in all 5 and was despatched off at odds-on to land his newest begin in a Class Two handicap on the straight course at Newbury. He’s 5lb increased within the weights in the present day and has an apparent probability, however has a number of extra “may very well be something” opponents to fret about earlier than you come to trace specialists like Ralph Beckett’s Qirat, who was touched off in the Victoria Cup here in May.
The Liffey, actually, has solely 4 races to his title and makes his handicap debut right here off a mark of 98 – and in first-time headgear – after ending a promising fourth in a Listed contest at Naas final time. He runs for Joseph O’Brien lately however was along with his father, Aidan, for his extraordinarily mild juvenile and three-year-old seasons. Bullet Level, who’s searching for a four-timer for the super-shrewd William Haggas, whereas Greek Order is one other eye-catcher making his debut for Michael Bell with Christophe Soumillon booked to experience. He began his profession with Roger & Harry Charlton, was despatched off at simply 5-2 favorite for the Cambridgeshire, one of many season’s best handicaps, in 2023 after which spent 2024 and the primary months of 2025 with Invoice Mott within the US. He’s doubtlessly well-handicapped off 95 if his previous expertise could be rekindled. And in case you are searching for one thing at an enormous value that may run into a spot, Roger Fell’s veteran La Trinidad is value a second have a look at round 40-1. He’s an eight-year-old lately however has been nearly as good as ever in sizzling handicaps at York and Thirsk on his final two begins.
SELECTION: QIRAT
It’s getting quicker on the market because the temperatures rise – Greg Wooden on the monitor tells me it’s now Good to Agency on the straight – no extra “good floor in locations’”.
Princess of Wales pulls out of Royal Ascot eventually minute
So the announcement of the royal procession has resulted in an precise information story as the unique listing of these travelling within the carriages has been amended and the Princess of Wales has withdrawn from attending Royal Ascot, apparently on the final minute. It will need to have been in order the primary draft of these within the carriages was despatched to journalists at 12.03pm after which information began to emerge a few quarter of an hour later that she wouldn’t be on the races this afternoon.
Kensington Palace has reportedly declined to touch upon the choice, however royal correspondents are reporting that the Princess of Wales is known to be “upset” at not having the ability to be on the assembly together with her husband and the King and Queen however “has to seek out the precise stability” on returning to full-time responsibility.
She was admitted to the London Clinic for stomach surgical procedure in January final 12 months and introduced she was in remission 12 months later. She had attended Trooping the Color and Order of the Garter in current days and made a go to to the not too long ago opened V&A East Storehouse final week.
Greg Wooden
4.20pm PRINCE OF WALES’S STAKES preview
The primary piece of current kind to contemplate in Wednesday’s characteristic occasion is undoubtedly the Group One Tattersalls Gold Cup on the Curragh final month, when Los Angeles beat Anmaat, final 12 months’s shock Champion Stakes winner over in the present day’s monitor and journey, by half a size. The naked kind, although, tells solely half the story, as Anmaat, who was making his seasonal debut towards a race-fit Los Angeles, travelled like one of the best horse within the race for a lot of the way in which and traded at 1-9 in working on Betfair when he ranged alongside inside the ultimate furlong. Owen Burrows’s gelding was outstayed to the road, however with the race underneath his belt and again on the scene of his greatest win thus far, it might be no shock in any respect to see him reverse the shape. Even that may not be sufficient to get the win, although, as See The Hearth is an interesting late addition to the sphere by way of a supplementary entry. Andrew Balding’s filly put up a much-improved efficiency within the Middleton Stakes at York in Might, scooting a dozen lengths clear after scything by the pack on the bit. The visible impression was backed up by a powerful time and she or he is a critical contender to get a primary Group One win on the board. French raider Map Of Stars is one other runner with no Group One win as but, however the top-class Sosie, the present favorite for the Arc in October, got first run on him in the Prix Ganay final time and he was ending better of all. Ombudsman too is in with an enormous shout, regardless of dropping his unbeaten document when second to Almaqam within the Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown final time, and even the 25-1 shot Facteur Cheval would have a squeak on his finest kind. Jerome Reynier’s gelding gained the Dubai Turf at Meydan in 2024 and was not far-off when sixth in the identical race in early April.
KEY FORM:
Tattersalls Gold Cup, the Curragh, 25 Might 25 (Los Angeles, Anmaat).
https://youtu.be/Nm__cQjBTGY?feature=shared
Prix Ganay, Longchamp, 27 Apr 25 (Map Of Stars).
https://youtu.be/42SlamCZsP0?feature=shared
Champion Stakes, Ascot, 19 Oct 24 (Anmaat, Los Angeles).
https://youtu.be/0QXdf7zGexw?feature=shared
Middleton Stakes, York, 15 Might 25 (See The Hearth).
https://youtu.be/LfTuXh8vMKo?feature=shared
Brigadier Gerard Stakes, Sandown, 29 Might 25 (Ombudsman).
https://youtu.be/S68WsLHK1Fk?si=MlwLBx2NjnYKmBiF
Dubai Turf, Meydan, 30 Mar 24 (Facteur Cheval).
https://youtu.be/UK9A05xfOd8?si=ViTJMEjPBDpTQJza
SELECTION: SEE THE FIRE
Queen’s Hat Stakes 2pm
Our common reader shall be properly conscious we at all times have the primary betting warmth, a vogue one, earlier than the racing will get underway. What color will Camilla’s hat be in the present day after a mint inexperienced titfer yesterday by Philip Treacy which I assumed was blue!
William Hill are betting on the heat with the chances as follows:
9-4 Blue, 3-1 Pink, 5-1 Yellow, 13-2 White, 12-1 Inexperienced, 14-1 Brown, Orange, Purple, 16-1 Pink, Gray, 25-1 Black.
Royal Procession Stakes, 2pm
Listed below are the runners and riders within the carriages coming down the monitor in two hours’ time:
1st Carriage
The King
The Queen
Prince Saud bin Khalid Al-Saud
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Soames of Fletching
2nd Carriage
The Prince of Wales
The Princess of Wales
Mr. Justin Rose
Mrs. Justin Rose
third Carriage
The Duke of Gloucester
The Duchess of Gloucester
The Earl of Halifax
The Countess of Halifax
4th Carriage
The Girl Sarah Chatto
Mr. Daniel Chatto
Mr. Robert Harris
Mrs. Robert Harris
The Prince and Princess of Wales flip up on the day of the race named after him which is turning into a daily ocurrence. Some attention-grabbing friends there … golfer Justin Rose and the novelist Robert Harris, creator of Conclave and ex of the Observer, ex of our secure.
In the meantime, the Ephraim Hardcastle column. within the Each day Mail identified this morning that “Prince Andrew’s public banishment continued on Tuesday along with his non-appearance at Royal Ascot. A minimum of the disgraced Duke was invited to the Windsor Fortress lunch earlier than the King, Queen and different royals took half within the carriage procession to the close by course. My mole whispers that Andrew is usually readily available to assist entertain friends, particularly on days when different royals are skinny on the bottom, though wearing his finest bib and tucker he isn’t allowed to hitch them on the course.”
Could be fascinating to be a fly on the wall when Harris and Prince Andrew met!
Greg Wooden
3.40pm DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE STAKES preview
Simply eight runners for this fillies’ and mares’ Group Two, however each final considered one of them has a minimum of a snippet of kind someplace {that a} first rate lawyer may construct a case round. The apparent candidates are Cinderella’s Dream, who took the Group Two Dahlia Stakes with ease final time however carries a 3lb penalty in consequence, and Fallen Angel, last season’s Irish 1,000 Guineas winner, who was sixth on her return to motion in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury however went off at 20-1 and absolutely wanted the race. Her advantageous efforts in defeat in the Group One Matron Stakes on the Curragh after which the Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp on Arc weekend in October make her a significant participant. She isn’t the one Traditional winner in in the present day’s subject as Elmaka will try and register a primary success since edging a blanket finish to the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket final season, though she was handed a complete beating by Cinderella’s Dream within the Dahlia.
SELECTION: CINDERELLA’S DREAM
Greg Wooden
3.05pm QUEEN’S VASE preview
The primary important three-year-old race of the season at a mile and three-quarters, and whereas Carmers took the Yeats Stakes at Navan in Might over a furlong shorter, each different runner is stepping up a minimum of two furlongs in journey. Many are prone to publish a brand new career-best in consequence, together with Aidan O’Brien’s Shackleton, a son of Camelot who was fourth of 5 on his return to motion over 10 furlongs on the Curragh however was stopped in his run and regarded certain to enhance for a step up in journey. Roger Varian’s Rahiebb is available in with a reasonably related profile to the coach’s Eldar Eldarov, who landed this in 2022 and went on to win the St Leger, whereas Asmarani, a product of the late Aga Khan IV’s breeding operation whose pedigree is laden with stamina, is one other very attention-grabbing contender for Francis-Henri Graffard. He was runner-up to a next-time winner within the Group Three Prix Hocquart at Longchamp in Might, is second-in on Timeform rankings on that kind and is sort of sure to seek out lots extra now that he goes past a mile-and-a-half. Satan’s Advocate, whose dam was a winner at this journey, was fourth in the Dante at York and is one other to contemplate together with O’Brien’s second-string Scandinavia, a maiden winner by Justify out of a Galileo mare, in what appears, on paper a minimum of, to be a cracking renewal of this race.
SELECTION: ASMARANI
Greg Wooden
2.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES preview
Royal Ascot gives all method of various challenges for kind college students and the duty right here is to determine the winner in an enormous subject of juvenile fillies that – excluding a few rank outsiders – have all had both one, two or no races in any respect. Judging the relative deserves of lightly-raced two-year-olds is a difficult puzzle that tends to contain plenty of trial and error, however there was little doubt that Karl Burke’s Zelaina would set off because the favorite for this race since she all of the working to win a maiden at Nottingham earlier this month by almost three lengths. She value £650k on the breeze-ups earlier this 12 months and was nonetheless displaying indicators of inexperience at Nottingham, so she could be anticipated to enhance considerably for the run (Timeform added a capital “P” to her score, suggesting that she is open to rather more than regular enchancment, they usually don’t hand these out willy-nilly). Wesley Ward has despatched 4 winners of this race over from his base in america, and whereas he’s lacking from the assembly this 12 months, there’s a nonetheless an American presence because of Patrick Biancone’s Lennilu. Biancone gained consecutive Arcs in 1983 and 1984 with All Alongside and Sagace, however has now been coaching within the States for greater than twenty years.
Lennilu certified to run by way of the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies at Gulfstream, which you’ll be able to watch – with commentary in Spanish, because it’s the one one I may discover – here, and Timeform had been sufficiently impressed by that run to make her their second-top runner within the race on rankings behind Aidan O’Brien’s True Love. Lennilu’s work rider and groom for the journey, by the way, would be the coach’s daughter, Andie, whose major job is as a reporter and analyst on the American racing channel, FanDuel TV. True Love, in the meantime, had her form behind stable-companion Gstaad at Navan in Might severely boosted on Tuesday when Gstaad ran out a cushty winner of the Coventry Stakes. A raft of different contenders with a single run and win to their title embrace Spicy Marg and Staya, and whereas Spicy Marg took a Newmarket novice that has produced two Royal Ascot winners within the final three years, Staya additionally put up a taking efficiency in her Yarmouth maiden. She travelled properly, eased by in the direction of the lead, quickened when required and clocked an honest time for a debutant, so a value of round 16-1 is a good each-way choice in an open race.
SELECTION: STAYA
Right here’s the run down of the motion in the present day and I’ll begin posting Greg Wooden’s previews to offer you an opportunity to review the shape:
2.30pm – The Queen Mary Stakes (5f)
3.05pm – The Queen’s Vase (1m 6f)
3.40pm – The Duke of Cambridge Stakes (1m)
4.20pm – The Prince of Wales’s Stakes (1m 2f)
5.00pm – The Royal Hunt Cup (Heritage Handicap) (1m)
5.35pm – The Kensington Palace Stakes (Handicap) (1m)
6.10pm – The Windsor Fortress Stakes (5f)
Rub these names out in your racecards. These are the horses that gained’t be turning up this afternoon together with their sick notes!
2.30pm Queen Mary Stakes
6 Everlasting Solace (not eaten up)
4.20pm Prince Of Wales’s Stakes
2 Sure Lad (going not appropriate)
5.35pm Kensington Palace Stakes
20 Queen Of Atlantis (dangerous scope)
6.10pm Windsor Fortress Stakes
13 Kansas (not eaten up)
Good morning. It’s sweltering already as I’m certain you’ve observed and it’s solely going to get hotter in order suggested yesterday there’s going to be no main change within the floor circumstances out on the monitor.
The official going for day two at Royal Ascot is Good to Agency, good in locations.
GoingStick readings at 8.30am:
Stands’ aspect: 8.5
Centre: 8.6
Far aspect: 8.5
Spherical course: 7.4
Preamble
Greg Wooden
Good morning from Ascot on day two of the 2025 Royal assembly on what guarantees to be one other scorcher of a day, each on and off the monitor.
There is just one Group One occasion on the cardboard – the Prince of Wales’s Stakes within the conventional primetime slot at 4.20pm (all occasions BST) – however it’s an ultra-competitive renewal with no fewer than 5 of the runners priced up between 9-4 and 11-2 or shorter.
A trio of Group Twos take us as much as the characteristic, starting from two-year-old fillies blitzing down the straight course within the Queen Mary Stakes (2.30pm) to three-year-old stayers and St Leger candidates within the Queen’s Vase. And the late afternoon motion contains the Royal Hunt Cup, some of the aggressive handicaps of the 12 months, and the added bonus of a royal runner with an enormous probability as Rainbows Edge goes to publish within the purple and scarlet silks for the Kensington Palace Stakes at 5.35pm.
5 millimetres of water on each the straight and spherical programs in a single day has maintained the going as good to agency, good in locations, though it’s certain to be getting quicker because the day unfolds.
Within the jockey and coach standings, Ryan Moore stays odds-on to be the week’s main rider at round 4-7 however James Doyle, who rode the final two winners on the opening day, is now right down to 15-8 (from a gap 5-1) with William Buick, who stays winnerless, is out to round 10-1. Fallen Angel, within the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes, and Map Of Stars, within the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, are Doyle’s main hopes in the present day, whereas all 4 of Moore’s rides on the cardboard – True Love (2.30pm), Shackleton (3.05pm), Los Angeles (4.20pm) and The Liffey (5pm) – are at present both favorite or second-favourite for his or her races.
A report on yesterday’s motion with a fast stroll by in the present day’s card is here, extra detailed previews of in the present day’s seven races are on the way in which, and all the most recent information, betting strikes, outcomes, quotes and extra shall be right here on the reside weblog all through the day.
