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Fifteen runners for the Irish Derby and a favourite that only ran eight days ago suggests this is a ripe for a bet. Clearly Santiago is very good and we like him – he was a winning tip at Royal Ascot last Friday – but this is a deeper race…

The Wokingham Handicap remains one of the best punting races of the entire meet and with 24 handicappers it’s not hard to see why. Last year had a rare winning favourite, and the improving Bielsa currently sits at the top of the market at 5/1. He does look talented, but…

With the Coolmore horse propping the market up at 6/4, you’re getting some massive prices on the rest of the Queen Mary field so it’s ripe for a bet. The favourite is by War Front and that’s always a red flag to me on softer ground, for all there are…

I think the American raider SHARING probably has the best form in the Coronation Stakes, but she’s 13/2. She won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf last autumn and beat all the European raiders who boasted some of the best of their domestic form, so her form looks strong. She’s…

The time is right for SANDS OF MALI to bounce back to his Group One-winning best over the same course and distance of his finest hour in the Champions Sprint. He’s been labeled a mudlark but has plenty of form on faster ground, including when 2nd in the Commonwealth Cup…

A really exciting-looking renewal of the Commonwealth Cup and I’ve come down on two that look like they are real Group 1 types. Lope Y Fernandes ran a blinder in the Irish 2000 Guineas to finish third, shaping like the drop back to 6f would suit. He was very well-punted…

The Queen’s Vase has produced some fantastic winners over the years including the likes of yesterday’s runaway Ascot Stakes winner, Stradivarious. The race doesn’t seem to possess a horse anywhere near that calibre on current evidence but they are all lightly-raced with Born With Pride a warm order for William…

Wesley Ward is always full of enthusiasm for his Royal Ascot chances but he said of his Norfolk Stakes chance GOLDEN PAL ‘I really think he’s one of the best horses I’ve ever brought to Royal Ascot – believe me, this horse is the real deal’. Bizarrely for Ward’s best…

FANNY LOGAN is a right good bet in the Hardwicke Stakes at 11/1. She gets the mares’ allowance against the colts and is proven on softer going which many of the market principles, including the favourite Antony Van Dyck, are known to dislike. John Gosden has been in good form…

With the rain falling, my old favourite SIR DRAGONET is looking more and more like a banker each time I look at the market for the Listed Wolferton Stakes. Sent off favourite for the Derby last year after bolting up at Chester and in his maiden, his form tailed off…