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Royal Ascot day 5 Placepot tips: Expert picks for Saturday June 22
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The fifth and final instalment of this season’s Royal Ascot arrives this afternoon, with another blistering seven-race offering headlined by the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, the final Group 1 event of the meeting.
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Royal Ascot Tote Placepot picks – Saturday predictions
Race 1: Royal Ascot, 2.30
Trainer Aidan O’Brien is going for a fifth win in the Chesham since 2016 and Bedtime Story looks a major player for him. The Frankel filly beat off well-touted stablemate Giselle on her debut at Leopardstown this month and did so with something up her sleeve. The form has been boosted since and top jockey Ryan Moore climbs on board now. Leicester winner Pentle Bay changed hands at the sales this week for £400,000 and looks a surefire improver upped in trip, so she is worth including too.
Selections: No 11 Pentle Bay, No 14 Bedtime Story
Race 2: Royal Ascot, 3.05
O'Brien has made it clear he was happy to go to Ascot fresh with Continuous, who was second to King Of Steel in the King Edward VII at this meeting last June and winner of York’s Great Voltigeur and the St Leger afterwards. He signed off with a very fair fifth place in the Arc, and his trainer thinks he was ridden too patiently that afternoon in Paris. Team Ballydoyle are rather adept at not making the same mistake twice and he may outclass these rivals under Moore.
Selection: No 2 Continuous
Race 3: Royal Ascot, 3.45
The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes is a 14-runner Group 1 sprint in which nothing towers above the field on form. Younger horses have done best in recent times, with nine winners since 2008 aged three or four. Mill Stream appeals as one with scope for better. Jane Chapple-Hyam’s Gleneagles colt was well suited to coming from off the pace in last month’s York Group 2 victory and should be doing his best work late on. Fellow four-year-old Believing put up a career-best effort when fourth in the King Charles III on Tuesday over 5f and should go well again over this extra furlong for George Boughey.
Selections: No 5 Mill Stream, No 12 Believing
Race 4: Royal Ascot, 4.25
River Tiber heads the market but he was behind Haatem at the Curragh in the Irish 2,000 Guineas four weeks ago as Richard Hannon’s charge pushed stablemate Rosallion all the way. That effort looks all the more pleasing now given the winner scored in the St James’s Palace this week and is top-ranked among the three-year-old milers for now. A stiff 7f will suit and he can continue a superb week for new owners Wathnan Racing by getting revenge on River Tiber for last year’s Coventry Stakes defeat over 6f. Sir Michael Stoute’s team is much reduced this year but Never So Brave is 2-2 this season, including a Chester handicap off 94 in ready fashion in May, and the colt is worth his place in this grade.
Selections: No 1 Haatem, No 12 Never So Brave
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Race 5: Royal Ascot, 5.05
Glenfinnan was a course-and-distance winner last month and his defeat of runner-up Billyjoh looks all the more noteworthy now as that rival was second in the Buckingham Palace Stakes on Thursday. Michael Dods has had this gelded son of Harry Angel for only his past three runs and he has shown since at Hamilton he can compete from this mark. A bigger effort could be incoming. Unequal Love appears an improved model at four, taking out a Newmarket Listed race in May on her comeback and then running soundly in the Group 2 Greenlands at the Curragh. She was not far behind Tuesday’s King Charles III second Regional in that race and a mark of 102 could be within her scope based on her improved four-year-old form so far.
Selections: No 9 Unequal Love, No 27 Glenfinnan
Race 6: Royal Ascot, 5.40
Hand Of God showed a pleasing attitude at Sandown in April for a winning handicap bow as Harry Charlton’s Churchill colt picked up where he left off in last year’s Newmarket maiden victory. He is only 3lb higher now and this race seemingly has been the plan. Portsmouth was unfortunate to bump into Persica at Epsom on Derby Day, finishing clear in second, and Andrew Balding’s charge could have more to offer from this 4lb higher mark, given he should be suited by the faster ground and has only two runs behind him at this distance.
Selections: No 8 Hand Of God, No 16 Portsmouth
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