Chesspiece looks the right move in competitive Vase June 20, 2023 WHILE it occupies a later position on today’s card than in the last few seasons, the Group Two Queen’s Vase (5:35pm) looks a contest well worth waiting for. A field of 14 lightly-raced individuals are set to go to post for a race that often comes down to staying potential, as has been proved in [...]
Intellogent play won’t leave you feeling Blue in Hunt Cup June 20, 2023 FOR MANY, the Royal Hunt Cup (5:00pm) is one of the highlights of the week at Royal Ascot. It’s a contest where established handicappers meet improving youngsters on the straight mile course at Ascot. A full field of 30 will be sent on their way at 5:00pm today and it could be profitable to stick [...]
Yer the one that I want in the Kensington Palace Stakes June 20, 2023 A FULL field of 20 are set to go to post for the Kensington Palace Fillies’ Handicap (3.05pm) and it looks a wide-open contest. Tamarama, ridden by Frankie Dettori, is bound to be popular after her good win at Kempton last time, though this looks a deeper race and she’s gone up five pounds in [...]
Haynes looks set to make a real Impact with Maximum June 20, 2023 A NEAR full-size field for the Listed Windsor Castle Stakes (6.10pm) over five furlongs will make for intriguing watching. Over half of the 26 two-year-olds come here with a win on their CV already, and the likes of Charlie Johnston’s Barnwell Boy and Aidan O’Brien’s Johannes Brahms make appeal, both having won their debuts and [...]
EP: 208 Royal Ascot – Wednesday June 20, 2023 The Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes and the always competitive Royal Hunt Cup feature on day two of this year’s Royal Ascot. Trainer Alice Haynes joins us to chat about her unbeaten 2-year-old colt Maximum Impact, who runs in the Windsor Castle Stakes. City AM Racing editor Bill Esdaile previews all of Wednesday’s action, [...]
The Punter Summary Podcast 21 June June 20, 2023 Here’s your chance to hear all of City AM racing editor Bill Esdaile’s best racing tips for Wednesday at Royal Ascot in a short summary episode of ‘The Punter Podcast’ alongside Chris Barnett. The full preview is also available on the City AM website. The Punter ‘The Punter’ has been City AM’s dedicated sports betting [...]
Buckaroo to play Games with his Wolferton rivals June 19, 2023 AS HAS become the norm at Royal Ascot, the five-day meeting gets underway with the Queen Anne Stakes (2.30pm) and this year’s renewal, on paper at least, looks a cracker. The market is finding it hard to split Inspiral and MODERN GAMES, but while I respect the former hugely, I’m firmly in the latter’s camp. [...]
Time to get aboard Royal Scotsman in St James’s Palace June 19, 2023 TODAY’S third and final Group One, the St James’s Palace Stakes (4.20pm) pits the winner of the English and Irish 2000 Guineas against each other as CHALDEAN takes on Paddington. Some have crabbed the form of Chaldean’s 2000 Guineas win, but I thought he was much the best at Newmarket and bar unseating Frankie Dettori [...]
Bring on the Ascot Stakes for Mullins’ unexposed Night June 19, 2023 THERE was a sense of disappointment for favourite backers in last year’s Ascot Stakes (5.00pm) when BRING ON THE NIGHT couldn’t get past Coltrane having been produced perfectly inside the final furlong. Looking back on that performance now, it can be seriously upgraded considering Coltrane is rated nearly 20lbs higher and is favourite for Thursday’s [...]
There is a Point in taking on Vauban with Chillingham June 19, 2023 EVERY year there are always a few horses that punters latch onto in the ante-post markets in the build-up to Royal Ascot and this season one of those is most definitely Vauban in the Copper Horse Handicap (6.10pm). Last year’s Triumph Hurdle winner and this season’s Champion Hurdle fourth was originally recruited from the flat [...]