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Good morning. It was a spot drizzly this greeting astatine Ascot but it has had minimal effect connected nan racing surface. The going for time 2 of Royal Ascot is: Good to Firm and there’s very small betwixt nan different sides of nan track.
GoingStick astatine 8.30am:
Stands’ side: 8.9
Centre: 8.7
Far side: 8.5
Round course: 7.6
We person 2 non-runners truthful acold truthful transverse these disconnected your database of imaginable wagers …
2.30pm Queen Mary Stakes (Group 2)
28 Your Song ( sold astatine Goffs London Sale connected Monday and disconnected to America)
5.35pm Kensington Palace Stakes (Fillies’ Handicap)|
20 Song N Dance (vet’s certificate – infection)
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Greg Wood
Good greeting from a somewhat overcast royal racecourse, wherever France’s racing superstar, Daryz, will effort to travel up nan footballers’ awesome showing against Senegal yesterday evening erstwhile he goes to station for nan Group One Prince of Wales’s Stakes astatine 4.20pm.
The characteristic arena is nan only Group One connected today’s paper aft nan gathering kicked disconnected pinch 3 successful nan first 4 races connected Tuesday, but it is possibly nan week’s astir eagerly-awaited title arsenic it pits Daryz, past season’s Arc winner, against Ombudsman, bidding to travel up his triumph successful this title past year, and 2 much unrecorded contenders astatine each-way prices successful Minnie Hauk, nan Arc runner-up, and Almaqam, a Group One victor successful Ireland past clip out.
Arc winners are hardly an unfamiliar show astatine Ascot, but they thin to tally successful nan King George, successful July, alternatively than astatine nan Royal meeting, and Daryz is nan first reigning Arc victor to tally astatine this gathering since Treve vanished 3rd successful nan Prince of Wales’s Stakes successful 2014.
The 2nd day’s paper is thing if not varied, arsenic nan five-furlong Queen Mary for juvenile fillies astatine 2.30 is swiftly followed by nan Queen’s Vase, complete a mile-and-three-quarters, wherever Point Of Law, nan 2nd royal runner of nan week, will group disconnected astatine astir 8-1. The main handicap connected nan card, meanwhile, offers nan unmissable show of a 30-runner section hammering down nan consecutive mile successful pursuit of nan Royal Hunt Cup.
It is cloudy but barren astatine nan way and nan going is good-to-firm connected some nan information and consecutive tracks, aft 5mm of h2o was applied overnight. Picks for nan 7 races connected today’s paper are here and nan unrecorded blog will beryllium present passim nan day and early evening until nan past runner successful nan Windsor Castle Stakes is safely backmost successful its box.
