#Britannia Stakes

Crowds have flocked to the Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire to to see the one of the world's greatest flat races - the Gold Cup. Order Of St George, ridden by Ryan Moore, is the favourite to win the Gold Cup with Betfair giving odds of 10/11. The two-mile long Group 1 race will kick off at 4.20pm. Royal Ascot is airing exclusively on ITV this year and…

Hopes of a fairytale ending to the Royal Ascot career of Stradivarius, with a record-equalling fourth Ascot Gold Cup win under Frankie Dettori, turned into a horror story on Thursday. For the second year running, the pair were beaten without having a decent shot at the prestigious prize. One of the great stayers of the modern era frustratingly…

Biometric (pink cap) denies a five-timer for Frankie Dettori on Turgenev (green) Frankie Dettori was famously denied his five-timer at Royal Ascot by Biometric in the Britannia Stakes, and Khalid Abdullah's colt is back for more here. Harry Bentley is again on board Biometric, whose form is not just all about Royal Ascot. He has been beaten only…

Royal Ascot is back as one of the biggest weeks in racing returns in front of a full house for the first time since 2019. Five days of action gets underway on Tuesday with seven races each afternoon and a total prize fund of over £8.5 million up for grabs. The racing will build up to the Ascot Gold Cup on Thursday, which is one of eight Grade One…

LATEST RESULTS, TIPS AND UPDATES: Find out every winner of every race on Ladies Day, plus the best pictures and videos Royal Ascot 2018: behind the scenes of a top stables where the Queen's racehorses are trained Stradivarius claimed victory in a thrilling renewal of the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot. Trained by John Gosden and ridden by Frankie Dettori,…

Battaash: super sprinter will face six in bid for fourth King George Qatar Stakes Battaash will face six rivals in Friday's King George Qatar Stakes as Charlie Hills's record breaker bids for a fourth success in the race. The Sheikh Hamdan-owned six-year-old is already the winningmost horse in the Group 2's history, having won the race every year…

The 2022 Royal Ascot festival is well underway, with punters set to enjoy two more thrilling days of action in Windsor. The first three days of Royal Ascot haven't disappointed, but there are still plenty of races to come. From the Gold Cup to the Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Ascot is one of the standout fixtures in the racing calendar, and they are…

Ascot plays host to a fascinating feature on Saturday, featuring the classy Chindit as well as a runner for Her Majesty The Queen. A field of seven go forward for the Group Two Summer Mile Stakes, live on Sky Sports Racing (3.35pm), in what promises to be an open contest. Run on the round mile, the race represents a different test to the Queen Anne…

Dettori was at his best on the 7-4 joint favourite, trained by John Gosden, to see off runner-up Vazirabad and long-time leader Torcedor in third. It was the 47-year-old jockey's sixth Gold Cup win and he treated the 70000 crowd to a trademark flying dismount. Joint favourite Order Of St George, the 2016 winner and last year's runner-up, could only…

Reach For The Moon: favourite for the Hampton Court Stakes Bookmakers are bracing themselves for a royal victory on day three at Royal Ascot, with success for the Queen's Reach For The Moon in the Hampton Court Stakes (5.35) set to trigger a £50000 ante-post payout for Star Sports. Trained by John and Thady Gosden, Reach For The Moon is a general…

Immediately noticeable in this year's Superior Mile is the lack of established Group performers. Stormy Antarctic counts, but he is surrounded by improvers, many of whom appeal as having it in them to go past him. His best hope is the testing ground in which he has tended to excel. Three of the top four in this race on adjusted RPRs, excepting…

It is Ladies Day at Royal Ascot and a number of royals, including the Queen, are expected to attend the famous races at Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire this week. About 300000 people are will flock to the five days of racing and there will be £6.58 million in prize money up for grabs. Ascot has become synonymous with the finest fashion and Ladies Day…

John Gosden and Frankie Dettori: the pair joined forces in 2015 They were only together for seven years, but the Frankie Dettori-John Gosden partnership became a part of racing furniture. However, it was announced late on Friday that their high-profile relationship "is on sabbatical" . Here is a look at their time together. . . March 2015 Frankie…

These are the ways to watch the Royal Ascot festival which welcomes crowds of 12000 Tuesday to Saturday. ITV and Sky Sports are behind this year's coverage Royal Ascot is the biggest racing festival to be held this summer. Last year it was behind closed doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, but now 12000 lucky fans can attend each day. Fashion…

Top tipster Simon Rowlands has three selections plus analysis for the third day of Royal Ascot on Thursday, live on Sky Sports Racing from 1.30pm. The Gold Cup at Royal Ascot on Thursday (4.20) will look a very different race depending on whether or not the best stayer around, Trueshan, shows up. He has been declared but seems an unlikely runner…

HER MAJESTY may have missed the action on day one of Royal Ascot, but the Queen still has plenty of runners left to go to post this week. Reach For The Moon is her best chance of a winner - and Frankie Dettori is the man tasked with giving Her Majesty a Royal winner in her Platinum Jubilee year. At 8-13 he is by far the shortest of all the Queen's…

Royal Ascot is the racing event of the summer and it promises to be extra special in the Queen's Platinum Jubilee year. For the first time since 2019, a full crowd will soak up the atmosphere over the five days. From June 14, fans are looking forward to fast-paced action on the track and perhaps a winner or two. Queen Elizabeth II will have runners…

An excellent and well-subscribed mid-week Lingfield all-weather card is where Declan Rix goes for Wednesday's Race of the Day on Sky Sports Racing. Sadly, we have no National Hunt action on Sky Sports Racing on Wednesday, but we do have a well-supported nine-race card at Lingfield getting underway at 11.25am. The 10-runner contest BetUK's Acca Club…

MICHAEL OWEN was able to raise a smile as he arrived at Ascot for the races - just hours after daughter Gemma admitted that she would "lick" a horse's bum because it was "clean". Viewers quickly went into meltdown, and no doubt too the former Liverpool and England striker, who has already had to face questions over his daughter's reality TV antics…

Stradivarius: bids to regain his Gold Cup crown on Thursday Stradivarius will face nine rivals as he bids to regain his crown and earn a record-equalling fourth win in the Gold Cup (4.20) on Thursday. The popular stayer dominated the meeting's pinnacle contest between 2018 and 2020 before finishing fourth to Subjectivist last year, but he returned…

William Haggas: in sensational form on Saturday William Haggas was left struggling to remember such a glut of winners after Dubai Honour in the Group 2 Prix Guillaume d'Ornano and Cloudy Dawn in the Group 3 Prix de Lieurey completed an across the Channel four-timer in the space of 40 frantic minutes on Saturday. With Sacred striking in the Group 2…

The world's top-rated sprinter, Battaash, leads the Royal Ascot charge this week for Shadwell at the iconic meeting, headlining the Group 1 King's Stand Stakes on Tuesday, a race he won in 2020-one of a leading six victories for the powerhouse operation at last year's global spectacular. The famed blue and white silks of the late His Highness…

Royal Ascot 2022 is nearly upon us and we have put together an all you need to know guide to help you through the five-day showpiece event of British flat racing. Dating back hundreds of years, Royal Ascot is a celebration of all thing's pageantry and racing, it's a mainstay of the racing calendar and is certainly one to savour. Royal Ascot is the…

A Lucky 15 consists of 15 bets: 4 singles, 6 doubles, 4 trebles, 1 four-fold. To place a multiple bet, select horses and options will appear in your betslip. An each-way Lucky 15, as advised below, is therefore 30 bets, and you will get a return of some kind if one horse places. IMMPORTAL BEAUTY took a backward step second time out after a…

The Queen of England loves to have winners at Royal Ascot - it's her favourite horse racing fixture of the year, while with this being her Platinum Jubilee year, if Queen Elizabeth II does bag her 25th Royal Ascot winner this week, the roar might even be heard here in America! She's got several horses entred over the five-day meeting, so let's take…

It is a low-key Monday after a frenetic weekend but that's not to say we won't see a potentially smart horse in action with Dornoch Castle running in the opening novice contest at Ayr. The Mark and Charlie Johnston-trained two-year-old looked an exciting prospect when making all on his debut at Haydock last month and the runner-up, himself a…

Royal Ascot week is upon us, with thousands of people descending on the Ascot racecourse to witness Europe's oldest and most storied horse racing event. Sometimes considered to be more of a social event, the Royal Ascot brings the finest horses in British flat horse racing together for a week of non-stop action in the shadow of Windsor Castle. With…

Aidan O'Brien will be looked to assert his dominance and can the favourites take charge like they did on Wednesday has started off with a thrilling opening two days with plenty of money made by the punters. Highland Reel was the big winner on the second day in Berkshire as it won the Prince Of Wales's Stakes. There were also triumphs for Le…

Chindit: chased home Baaeed on his last two starts The favourite has delivered in each of the past nine runnings of the Summer Mile but this year's race is wide open with at least five plausible winners. It is no forgone conclusion that early market leader Chindit will make it a perfect ten, and it is not fanciful to suggest there may be a new…

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the third day of Royal Ascot 2021. We'll have all the news, betting tips and live racing updates you will need throughout the day. The highlight of the card is the Gold Cup at 4.15pm - with Stradivarius (who has Frankie Dettori on board) looking to equal the legendary Yeats' record of four in a row. Today's…

In her Platinum Jubilee Year, the Queen's odds-on favourite Reach For The Moon was beaten by Claymore in the Hampton Court Stakes. Dettori was also a runner-up on Saga, as Thesis won the Britannia Stakes. And he had a nightmare passage as Stradivarius was denied a record-equalling fourth Gold Cup. The 13-8 favourite Kyprios, ridden by Ryan Moore…

The Queen: missed Derby meeting that formed part of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations The Queen was not part of the royal procession on day one of Royal Ascot 2022 on Tuesday. Racing's most famous owner-breeder, who missed the Derby meeting that formed part of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations this month, has long played a central role in racing's…

There's a feast of ITV Racing action on Saturday with eight live races from Newmarket, Haydock and the Curragh in a packed offering. The bet365 Cambridgeshire Handicap at Newmarket is preceded by Group 1 action as the top two-year-olds in Britain and Ireland do battle the Cheveley Park Stakes and Middle Park Stakes. The broadcast is on ITV4 from…

Royal Ascot is back to its glorious best this year, as crowds return in big numbers to the top fixture. Flat racing's jewel in the summer crown had a much reduced capacity in 2021, a year on from the empty grandstands of 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the same month as the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, it promises to be an extra special…

Matt Hulmes breaks down day three at the Royal Ascot including the Gold Cup, which Stradivarius is looking to win for a fourth time 20:05, 16 Jun 2021 Gold Cup Day at Royal Ascot and history is in the making with superstar stayer Stradivarius bidding to emulate Yeats and win the race for a fourth time and a fifth victory at the meeting. I'd…