The Norfolk Stakes over five furlongs opens Royal Ascot’s Thursday card, and I can’t really work out why Kochek is favourite after not winning last time out in a bunched finish, which usually suggests the runners were closely matched. Hardly stand-out form, then, and I’m not too excited by Wesley…
Day: 21 June 2018
1.5pts win Magic Wand @9/2, 15:40 Royal Ascot, Thursday
There are several horses in the Ribblesdale Stakes that contested the Oaks at Epsom a few weeks ago. However, the going conditions are extremely different at Royal Ascot with a more conventional stiff track and rattling-fast conditions to contend with. I don’t necessarily see those two factors and a 3lb…
1.5pts each-way Vazirabad @6/1, 16:20 Royal Ascot, Thursday
Big Orange is absent to defend his Ascot Gold Cup crown, but the 2018 renewal looks very classy nonetheless with 2016 winner Order Of St George, rising star Stradivarius and leading French stayer Vazirabad among a field of nine. Most of the pre-race talk has been of Stradivarius progressing from…