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Ascot Gold Cup tips, odds and free bets – Royal Ascot 2024
Here are the latest tips and betting news for the Ascot Gold Cup, the feature race on day three of Royal Ascot
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Day three of Royal Ascot includes the most prestigious race of the whole meeting, the Gold Cup over 2m 4f. It is one of the most celebrated contests in the calendar and is the most iconic staying event on the Flat in Europe, if not the world.
Some of the most decorated names in the game have won the trophy – and this year, 2022 victor Kyprios looks to regain his title this afternoon against a strong field of nine others that can grab Group 1 glory.
Our expert has pulled out a pair to focus on in the 2024 Gold Cup at Ascot, scheduled to be off at 4.25pm.
Ascot Gold Cup odds
- Kyprios @ 5/6
- Gregory @ 5/1
- Vauban @ 6/1
- Trawlerman @ 8/1
- Caius Chorister @ 11/1
- Coltrane @ 12/1
- Sweet William @ 14/1
- Trueshan @ 33/1
- Prydwen @ 50/1
- Enemy @ 80/1
Ascot Gold Cup tips
- Selection: Trawlerman @ 8/1 with BetMGM
- Next best: Coltrane @ 12/1 with BetMGM
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Trawler can haul in victory for the Gosdens
Early indications are that the ground this week at Royal Ascot is fast. Plenty of these stayers are most at home on softer going. The exception to that could be TRAWLERMAN, who has far more in his favour than overnight odds imply.
This horse made his name by winning the 2022 Ebor under Frankie Dettori and ended that season by finishing third in the Long Distance Cup on British Champions Day.
Trawlerman’s 2023 campaign, following a trip to the Middle East, got off to a late start. He ran three times in September and October, winning the first two in a lower grade by a combined 31 lengths. He then got the better of Kyprios in the Long Distance Cup here.
Against that backdrop, Trawlerman should be right up there in the betting. Yet it has taken until after declarations for money to begin flowing in for him. He ran respectably back at Meydan on his only start this year, but he will surely be tuned up for the biggest staying race of all.
Selection: Trawlerman @ 8/1 with BetMGM
Coltrane to hit the right notes
Last year’s winner Courage Mon Ami is not in the field this time. In the 2023 running, he beat COLTRANE into second. That horse, who was favourite for the 2023 Gold Cup, got his revenge in the Lonsdale Cup at York, again on fast ground, and he looks a really attractive each-way option in this race again.
Coltrane has run six times at Ascot in all. He has won three times and been second in the Gold Cup and Long Distance Cup. Only in last year’s Long Distance did he not come up to snuff.
He got back on track when winning the Sagaro Stakes here on May 1 and has been saved for another crack at this contest since. He copes with most going, but would have more fast-ground form than most of these – and that just adds to the idea that he will turn up and run his race.
If Coltrane does put his best foot forward, he can reward each-way backers at the least. While he cannot match the class of Kyprios or Trawlerman, his dependability counts for a lot, especially with respect to the mercurial favourite.
Selection: Coltrane @ 12/1 with BetMGM
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