Royal Ascot Friday: Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwicke and Queen's Vase stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on likely soft turf

The penultimate day of the 2020 Royal Ascot meeting is a doozy. There are seven races, five of them Group stakes. The weather has been wet all week and the condition of Royal Acot's course has softened. Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwicke and Queen's Vase stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on likely soft turf.

Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwicke and Queen's Vase stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on likely soft turf for Friday's Royal Ascot. Race 2 is at 8:50 am ET.

Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwicke and Queen's Vase stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on soft turf. The first major juvenile stakes of the year is the Group 2 Albany Stakes, 6 furlongs, Turf, 2-year-old Fillies. Willabell, trained by John Gosden and ridden by Frankie Dettori, is a 10-1 chance to win.

Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwicke and Queen's Vase stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on likely soft turf for Friday's Royal Ascot. Race 3 is at 9:25 am ET.

Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwicke and Queen's Vase stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on likely soft turf. The Norfolk Stakes, 6 furlongs, Turf, 2-year-olds, drew a field of 14. 4-Eye of Heaven won a maiden race at Newmarket on June 4. Garrity bet $30 on 4 Eye of heaven to win the race.

Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwicke and Queen's Vase stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on likely soft turf for Friday's Royal Ascot. Race 4 is at 10:00 am ET.

Eleven older horses go in the Hardwicke Stakes, 1.5 miles on a boggy turf course. Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwickke and Queen's Vase stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on likely soft turf.

Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwicke and Queen's Vase stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on likely soft turf for Friday's Royal Ascot race.

Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwicke and Queen's Vase stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on likely soft turf. Garrity bets $35 on 4-Lope Y Fernandez to win the race.

The final Group race of the day at Ascot is the Queen's Vase, which features nine 3-year-olds going the marathon mile and three-quarters distance. The horse owned by Coolmore and trained by Aidan O'Brien is 5-Nobel Prize. Garrity picks the Albany, Norfolk, Hardwicke and Queen’s Vases stakes, plus the Commonwealth Cup on likely soft turf.