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Royal Ascot betting hints and advice
Forget the history and heritage, the pageantry and paraphernalia, it is picking the winners in the Royal Ascot betting that counts. For five days in the middle of June, Royal Ascot provides not only one of the key fixtures of the year’s sporting and social calendar, ranking on equal terms with the likes of Wimbledon, but an absolute paradise for punters looking to prosper in the Ascot betting.
Each day at Ascot boasts unparalleled betting opportunities ranging from picking the winner of a Group 1 flat race comprising the top racing talent to predicting the colour that the Queen will choose to wear for the day. The Royal Ascot meeting is unique. It is a Mecca for the aspiring socialites, fashionistas, corporate entertainers and, more importantly, top trainers and their charges. Everyone (including the Queen) really wants to have a winner at Royal Ascot.
You will not have to don topper and tails to enjoy watching your Royal Ascot bet come home. You do not even need to subscribe to a specialist horse racing channel. Fortunately, BBC TV covers the vast majority of races. Of the thirty races that take place over the meeting, twenty four will be shown live on terrestrial television.
The Queen Anne Stakes is the opener for Ascot betting and always attracts the attention of plenty of punters. It is the first of the three Group One races on the opening day, a race for horses of at least four years old and is run over a mile. The 2009 running of the race delighted patriotic UK punters in the Ascot betting when Richard Hannon’s Paco Boy, ridden by Richard Hughes, came home at odds of 100-30, the second favourite. Saeed Bin Suroor’s ‘wonderhorse’, Gladiatorus, ridden by Ahmed Ajtebi was 9-4 favourite on the back of some impressive victories in Nad Al Sheba in the United Arab Emirates, but failed to deliver on the Ascot turf. Gladiatorus finished a disappointing sixth.
In 2008, the joint second favourite, Haradasun triumphed at odds of 5-1. The Aidan O’Brien trained five year old, ridden by Johhny Murtagh, beat the French challenger, Darjina (also 5-1) by a short head. The 9-2 favourite in the Royal Ascot betting for the race, Bolger’s Finsceal Beo, finished third.
The 2007 winner, Saeed Bin Suroor’s Ramonti, was third in the betting at 5-1, beating 15-8 favourite, Aidan O’Brien’s Excellent Art, by half a length. Andre Fabre’s Valixir won at odds of 4-1 in 2005, the second favourite again, beating Rakti, the 5-6 favourite by one and a half lengths.
Queen Anne Stakes betting tip: If you want to make money on the Queen Anne in the Ascot betting, the results from recent years suggest that the winner will come from the top four in the market. Aidan O’Brien’s Ad Valorem, the victor in 2006, was fourth in the betting at 13-2. The second favourite in the Ascot betting is definitely worth a serious look. This just doesn’t look like a race where an outsider is going to make you any money, even if you have it each way.
The King’s Stand Stakes is the second Group One race and the most valuable on the first day with some £300,000 on offer. It is a five furlong race for horses three years old or older and is one of the most prestigious sprints of the entire meeting. The race was created in 1860 as a result of the ever influential British weather. Heavy rain that year dictated that only five furlongs of the course were actually raceable. A two mile race, the Royal Stand Plate, had to be cancelled and thus, what we now know as the King’s Stand Stakes five furlong contest was born, out of necessity rather than design.
This race is an interesting challenge for punters with some twenty runners going to post. There are no hard and fast rules on what to look for in the Ascot betting. Recently, favourites have come in, Scenic Blast at 11-4 (2009) and Miss Andretti at 3-1 (2007) for example, but Equiano also triumphed as recently as 2008 at odds of 22-1.
King’s Stand Stakes betting tip: Take a good look at the foreign raiders. They have an impressive record in this race. Don’t forget that Equiano was trained by Delcher-Sanchez when he scored in the race.
On the second day of Royal Ascot, the Prince of Wales Stakes is the sole Group One contest and has the richest purse of the day with £450,000 in prize money. Four year olds and older horses race over a mile and a quarter in pursuit of it. Recent runnings of the race have rewarded favourite backers in the Royal Ascot betting.
Duke of Marmalade claimed the first prize for Aidan O’Brien under Johnny Murtagh in 2008, starting the evens favourite in the betting at Ascot. In 2007, Andre Fabre’s Manduro was the 15-8 favourite who beat Aidan O’Brien’s Dylan Thomas (2-1) into second place.
The 2009 running of the race saw the top three in the Ascot betting fill the first three places although Vision D’Etat won at 4-1 beating the favourite, Sir Michael Stoute’s Tartan Bearer who started at odds of 6-4, by half a length. The second favourite, Never On Sunday, finished a very close third. The result, with a couple of minor amendments, followed the order dictated by the betting with the outsider of the race, Estejo (66-1) finishing 16 lengths last. You only had to move Vision D’Etat down two places to third and Virtual up one place to fifth to have the runners finish in the order of their starting prices. The punters had a fair idea of what was going to happen there and a large number raked in their profits in the Royal Ascot betting.
The Gold Cup is the big race and only Group One contest of the third day. £250,000 is offered in prize money for the two and a half mile marathon that Aidan O’Brien’s Yeats made his own with an impressive run of victories. Yeats’ exploits have had the sentimentalists reaching for their handkerchiefs and the more analytical racing enthusiasts wondering why on earth Aidan O’Brien didn’t simply move on and look for other challenges for this talented stayer.
The Coronation Stakes is the feature race of the fourth day. It is contested by three year old fillies in pursuit of £250,000 in prize money. On the fifth day it is the Golden Jubilee Stakes that offers the largest prize of £450,000. Run over six furlongs, this is a sprint that has sprung some major surprises in the Royal Ascot betting.
In 2009, Michael Bell’s Art Connoisseur won at odds of 20-1, beating Wesley Ward’s 11-1 shot, Cannon Ball, and the 33-1 outsider, Lesson in Humility, finished third. The key factor in delivering victory to outsiders was the favourite, foreign raider, J J the Jet Plane running rather too keenly early on. The first two horses home were well behind in the early stages.
John Best, the notoriously opportunistic trainer from Kent, sent Kingsgate Native out to victory in 2008 at 33-1, beating the favourite, Joe Janiak’s Takeover Target into fourth.
The Tip for the Golden Jubilee Stakes is to take a long hard look at the outsiders.
Whether you like to profit from large punts on favourites or prefer to seek out a long shot, there are plenty of opportunities to make good money in the Royal Ascot betting.
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