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Cinderellas Dream 5/4
One Look 4/1
Fallen Angel 6/1
Working Lion 15/2
Soprano 14/1
Crimson Advocate 14/1
Begin Of Day 20/1
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Market Mover: Fallen Angel 4/1 out to six/1
Horses are cooled down after the races with followers and water. {Photograph}: Toby Melville/ReutersShareLast 12 months’s 1,000 Guineas winner Elmalka has been introduced a non-runner within the Duke of Cambridge Stakes (3.40) as a result of quickening floor. Our correspondent Greg Wooden experiences from Ascot {that a} new course report was set within the Queen’s Vase.CARMERS wins The Queen’s Vase after a detailed run race, breaking the course report!— Ascot Racecourse (@Ascot) June 18, 2025
ShareGreg Wood3.40pm DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE STAKES previewJust eight runners for this fillies’ and mares’ Group Two, however each final one among them has a minimum of a snippet of type someplace {that a} respectable lawyer may construct a case round. The plain candidates are Cinderella’s Dream, who took the Group Two Dahlia Stakes with ease final time however carries a 3lb penalty consequently, and Fallen Angel, final season’s Irish 1,000 Guineas winner, who was sixth on her return to motion within the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury however went off at 20-1 and certainly wanted the race. Her positive efforts in defeat within 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 to register a primary success since edging a blanket end 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 DREAMRunners and riders in motion in the course of the Queen’s Vase on day two of Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: David Davies/PAShare3.05pm QUEEN’S VASE consequence: Carmers comes good1 Carmers (W J Lee) 9-22 Furthur (Oisin Murphy) 20-13 Rahiebb (S De Sousa) 9-113 ranCarmers, ridden by Billy Lee, on their method to profitable the Queen’s Vase on day two of Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: Tom Jenkins/The GuardianShareUpdated at 10.26 EDT3.05pm QUEEN’S VASE And so they’re off … Shackleton has the early lead … Carmers is shut up with Scandinavia among the many leaders too … Too Quickly is final they usually’re at midway … heading to the house flip … into the straight and Scandinavia is being pushed alongside … the unbeaten Carmers heads for house … and outstays his rivals to say a deserved success.ShareUpdated at 10.13 EDTVery unhappy information that Harry’s Lady suffered a deadly harm within the first race this afternoon. The Richard Hannon-trained filly was ridden by Sean Levey.Share3.05pm QUEEN’S VASE betting
Asmarani 7/2
Carmers 9/2
Shackleton 11/2
Pinhole 7/1
Rahiebb 8/1
Scandinavia 12/1
Additional 16/1
Spinning Wheel 20/1
Titanium Emperor 28/1
66-1 BAR – 13 Runners
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Market Mover: Carmers 7/1 into 9/2
Racegoers pictured at Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: Toby Melville/ReutersShareGreg Wood3.05pm QUEEN’S VASE previewThe first important three-year-old race of the season at a mile and three-quarters, and whereas Carmers took the Yeats Stakes at Navan in Could over a furlong shorter, each different runner is stepping up a minimum of two furlongs in journey. Many are prone to submit a brand new career-best consequently, 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 seemed positive 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 Could, is second-in on Timeform rankings on that type and is sort of sure to seek out a lot extra now that he goes past a mile-and-a-half. Satan’s Advocate, whose dam was a winner at this journey, was fourth within the Dante at York and is one other to think about together with O’Brien’s second-string Scandinavia, a maiden winner by Justify out of a Galileo mare, in what seems, on paper a minimum of, to be a cracking renewal of this race.SELECTION: ASMARANICarole Middleton and Sam Waley-Cohen watching the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: David Davies/PAShare2.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES: True Love beats 100-1 shot1 True Love (R L Moore) 9-4 Fav2 Flowerhead (C T Keane) 100-13 Lennilu (Luis Saez) 11-223 ranNon Runners: 1,6You by no means see a bearded jockey do you! {Photograph}: James Manning/PAShareUpdated at 09.40 EDT2.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKESAnd they’re off … this will likely 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!ShareUpdated at 09.38 EDTCaroline 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.Share2.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES betting
True Love 5/2
Zelaina 7/2
Society Kiss 6/1
Spicy Marg 8/1
Cardiff By The Sea 11/1
Lennilu 12/1
Staya 18/1
Harry’s Lady 20/1
Love Olivia 25/1
BAR 33/1 – 21 Runners
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Market Mover: Cardiff By The Sea 18/1 into 11/1
The gang numbers had been up 4% on final 12 months on the primary day yesterday when 45,551 attended. {Photograph}: James Manning/PAShareGreg Wood2.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES previewRoyal Ascot supplies all method of various challenges for type 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 a number 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 price £650k on the breeze-ups earlier this 12 months and was nonetheless exhibiting indicators of inexperience at Nottingham, so she will 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 20 years.Lennilu certified to run by way of the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies at Gulfstream, which you’ll watch – with commentary in Spanish, because it’s the one one I may discover – right 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 important job is as a reporter and analyst on the American racing channel, FanDuel TV. True Love, in the meantime, had her type behind stable-companion Gstaad at Navan in Could significantly 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 identify embody 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 means of in direction of the lead, quickened when required and clocked a good time for a debutant, so a value of round 16-1 is a good each-way choice in an open race.SELECTION: STAYARacegoers forward of the Queen Mary Stakes on day two of Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: John Walton/PAShareQueen’s Hat Stakes 2pm result1. Inexperienced (once more) 12-1.Because the royal procession makes its means down the monitor I’m obligation sure to remind my common reader of the Serpentine gallery exhibition by artist Mark Wallinger I noticed again in 1994 when one among his installations, referred to as ‘Royal Ascot’, consisted of a collection of video displays on prime of wheeled flight circumstances, 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, because the British Council factors out of their description of the paintings, “the distinction from each day is barely discernible, simply because the 4 commentaries merge in a confused blather.”Right here’s the total historical past of the royal procession.ShareUpdated at 09.04 EDT6.10pm WINDSOR CASTLE STAKES previewA massive 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 dwell 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 just about actually went a way into seven figures.If there may be going to be one to enhance previous him, the market suggests will probably be Andrew Balding’s Outdated Is Gold, with James Doyle driving within the Wathnan Racing colors that he steered to a double within the last two races yesterday. He took the Two-12 months-Outdated Trophy at Beverley in Could, whereas Rogue Legend’s former possession group can have excessive hopes of an enormous run from Rogue Supremacy, a simple winner of his solely race up to now at Wetherby.SELECTION: ROGUE LEGENDRacegoers arriving at Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: Toby Melville/ReutersShareGreg Wood5.35pm KENSINGTON PALACE STAKES HANDICAP, FILLIES & MARES previewJohn & 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, a degree 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 stable 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 type, whereas different apparent contenders on latest type embody James Fanshawe’s Sky Safari, who may be very evenly 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 Unbiased Professional, at round 25-1. She has extra miles on the clock than many of those however is within the early levels 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 a good time within the course of.SELECTION: INDEPENDENT EXPERTHats an excellent shot! {Photograph}: Paul Childs/Motion Photographs/ReutersShareUpdated at 08.42 EDTGreg Wood5pm ROYAL HUNT CUP HANDICAP previewThis is at all times probably the most 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 fairly positive of getting a run nowadays is within the low 90s – and this 12 months it’s 94, which is bordering on Group-class means – so the great outdated 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 certainly 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 greater within the weights in the present day and has an apparent probability, however has a number of extra “might be something” opponents to fret about earlier than you come to trace specialists like Ralph Beckett’s Qirat, who was touched off within the Victoria Cup right here in Could.The Liffey, in actual fact, has solely 4 races to his identify 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 nowadays however was together with his father, Aidan, for his extraordinarily gentle 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 journey. 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 probably well-handicapped off 95 if his outdated expertise will be rekindled. And in case you are searching for one thing at a large value which may run into a spot, Roger Fell’s veteran La Trinidad is price a second have a look at round 40-1. He’s an eight-year-old nowadays however has been pretty much as good as ever in sizzling handicaps at York and Thirsk on his final two begins.SELECTION: QIRATThat seems exhausting work – have to be an enormous picnic. {Photograph}: Toby Melville/ReutersShareUpdated at 08.42 EDTIt’s getting sooner 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’”.The grass is getting parched within the well-known picnic enclosures at Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: Neil Corridor/EPAShareUpdated at 08.33 EDTPrincess of Wales pulls out of Royal Ascot eventually minuteSo 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 should 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 couple of 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 fitting stability” on returning to full-time obligation.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 latest days and made a go to to the lately opened V&A East Storehouse final week.The Prince and Princess of Wales at Royal Ascot in 2023. {Photograph}: John Walton/PAShareUpdated at 09.18 EDTGreg Wood4.20pm PRINCE OF WALES’S STAKES previewThe first piece of latest type to think about in Wednesday’s function 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 type, although, tells solely half the story, as Anmaat, who was making his seasonal debut in opposition to a race-fit Los Angeles, travelled like one of the best horse within the race for a lot of the best way 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 beneath his belt and again on the scene of his largest win up to now, it will be no shock in any respect to see him reverse the shape. Even which may not be sufficient to get the win, although, as See The Fireplace is a captivating late addition to the sector by way of a supplementary entry. Andrew Balding’s filly put up a much-improved efficiency within the Middleton Stakes at York in Could, scooting a dozen lengths clear after scything by means of the pack on the bit. The visible impression was backed up by a robust time and she or he is a severe 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, obtained first run on him within 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 report 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 type. 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 Could 25 (Los Angeles, Anmaat).https://youtu.be/Nm__cQjBTGY?function=sharedPrix Ganay, Longchamp, 27 Apr 25 (Map Of Stars).https://youtu.be/42SlamCZsP0?function=sharedChampion Stakes, Ascot, 19 Oct 24 (Anmaat, Los Angeles).https://youtu.be/0QXdf7zGexw?function=sharedMiddleton Stakes, York, 15 Could 25 (See The Fireplace).https://youtu.be/LfTuXh8vMKo?function=sharedBrigadier Gerard Stakes, Sandown, 29 Could 25 (Ombudsman).https://youtu.be/S68WsLHK1Fk?si=MlwLBx2NjnYKmBiFDubai Turf, Meydan, 30 Mar 24 (Facteur Cheval).https://youtu.be/UK9A05xfOd8?si=ViTJMEjPBDpTQJzaSELECTION: SEE THE FIRERacegoers cross the course as they arrive at Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: Toby Melville/ReutersShareQueen’s Hat Stakes 2pmOur common reader will likely be properly conscious we at all times have the primary betting warmth, a style 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 warmth with the percentages as follows:9-4 Blue, 3-1 Pink, 5-1 Yellow, 13-2 White, 12-1 Inexperienced, 14-1 Brown, Orange, Purple, 16-1 Crimson, Gray, 25-1 Black.Queen Camilla carrying a mint inexperienced hat on the opening day on Tuesday. {Photograph}: James Manning/PAShareRoyal Procession Stakes, 2pmHere are the runners and riders within the carriages coming down the monitor in two hours’ time:1st CarriageThe KingThe QueenPrince Saud bin Khalid Al-SaudThe Rt. Hon. The Lord Soames of Fletching2nd CarriageThe Prince of WalesThe Princess of WalesMr. Justin RoseMrs. Justin Rose3rd CarriageThe Duke of GloucesterThe Duchess of GloucesterThe Earl of HalifaxThe Countess of Halifax4th CarriageThe Girl Sarah ChattoMr. Daniel ChattoMr. Robert HarrisMrs. Robert HarrisThe Prince and Princess of Wales flip up on the day of the race named after him which is turning into an everyday ocurrence. Some attention-grabbing company 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 Every day Mail identified this morning that “Prince Andrew’s public banishment continued on Tuesday together with his non-appearance at Royal Ascot. At the least 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 available to assist entertain company, 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.”Can be fascinating to be a fly on the wall when Harris and Prince Andrew met!Justin Rose is among the many company within the royal procession in the present day at Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: Archie Carpenter/UPI/ShutterstockShareUpdated at 07.15 EDTGreg Wood3.40pm DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE STAKES previewJust eight runners for this fillies’ and mares’ Group Two, however each final one among them has a minimum of a snippet of type someplace {that a} respectable lawyer may construct a case round. The plain candidates are Cinderella’s Dream, who took the Group Two Dahlia Stakes with ease final time however carries a 3lb penalty consequently, and Fallen Angel, final season’s Irish 1,000 Guineas winner, who was sixth on her return to motion within the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury however went off at 20-1 and certainly wanted the race. Her positive efforts in defeat within 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 to register a primary success since edging a blanket end 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 DREAMRacegoers wait outdoors for entry to Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: Toby Melville/ReutersShareUpdated at 07.03 EDTGreg Wood3.05pm QUEEN’S VASE previewThe first important three-year-old race of the season at a mile and three-quarters, and whereas Carmers took the Yeats Stakes at Navan in Could over a furlong shorter, each different runner is stepping up a minimum of two furlongs in journey. Many are prone to submit a brand new career-best consequently, 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 seemed positive 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 Could, is second-in on Timeform rankings on that type and is sort of sure to seek out a lot extra now that he goes past a mile-and-a-half. Satan’s Advocate, whose dam was a winner at this journey, was fourth within the Dante at York and is one other to think about together with O’Brien’s second-string Scandinavia, a maiden winner by Justify out of a Galileo mare, in what seems, on paper a minimum of, to be a cracking renewal of this race.SELECTION: ASMARANIThe nearest she’ll get to getting moist in the present day. {Photograph}: John Walton/PAShareUpdated at 06.54 EDTGreg Wood2.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES previewRoyal Ascot supplies all method of various challenges for type 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 a number 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 price £650k on the breeze-ups earlier this 12 months and was nonetheless exhibiting indicators of inexperience at Nottingham, so she will 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 20 years.Lennilu certified to run by way of the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies at Gulfstream, which you’ll watch – with commentary in Spanish, because it’s the one one I may discover – right 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 important job is as a reporter and analyst on the American racing channel, FanDuel TV. True Love, in the meantime, had her type behind stable-companion Gstaad at Navan in Could significantly 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 identify embody 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 means of in direction of the lead, quickened when required and clocked a good time for a debutant, so a value of round 16-1 is a good each-way choice in an open race.SELECTION: STAYAClock that accent! {Photograph}: John Walton/PAShareUpdated at 06.39 EDTHere’s the run down of the motion in the present day and I’ll begin posting Greg Wooden’s previews to present you an opportunity to check 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)A racegoer’s gown is adjusted as they queue to enter Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: Toby Melville/ReutersShareRub 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 Stakes2 Sure Lad (going not appropriate)5.35pm Kensington Palace Stakes20 Queen Of Atlantis (unhealthy scope)6.10pm Windsor Fortress Stakes13 Kansas (not eaten up)Two racegoers pictured arriving at Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: Toby Melville/ReutersShareGood morning. It’s sweltering already as I’m positive 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’ facet: 8.5Centre: 8.6Far facet: 8.5Round course: 7.4A racegoer arriving early on the monitor on day two of Royal Ascot. {Photograph}: John Walton/PASharePreambleGreg WoodGood 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 function, 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 consists of the Royal Hunt Cup, probably the most aggressive handicaps of the 12 months, and the added bonus of a royal runner with an enormous probability as Rainbows Edge goes to submit 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 pretty much as good to agency, good in locations, though it’s positive to be getting sooner 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 all the way 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 the moment both favorite or second-favourite for his or her races.A report on yesterday’s motion with a fast stroll by means of in the present day’s card is right here, extra detailed previews of in the present day’s seven races are on the best way, and all the most recent information, betting strikes, outcomes, quotes and extra will likely be right here on the dwell weblog all through the day.Share
