Day two done and the sun is shining stronger than ever.It seems a long time ago now but Aidan O’Brien started the day with a very impressive winner in True Love.The O’Brien-trained favourite Los Angeles failed to fire in the big race, the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, and glory went to John Gosden and Ombudsman.Those hoping for a royal winner were again denied when, after yesterday’s debacle with Reaching High the favourite Rainbows Edge blew out in the 5.35pm race.

It’s the Gold Cup tomorrow and Aidan O’Brien trains the favourite … now we’ve said that before.Good luck and good night.1 Havana Hurricane (Charles Bishop) 7-1 2 Dickensian (S A Gray) 20-1 3 dead-heat Azizam (S H James) 7-1 3 dead-heat Rogue Legend (W J Lee) 4-1 23 ran Non Runner: 136.10pm WINDSOR CASTLE STAKESAnd they’re off … this will be over very quickly … Better And Better and Tough Critic are out fast … and here comes Havana Hurricane to blow them away in the centre of the track to win, finishing fast and late.HAVANA HURRICANE WINS THE WINDSOR CASTLE STAKES! #ROYALASCOT pic.

twitter,com/c9e327oFDF6,10pm WINDSOR CASTLE STAKES bettingRogue Legend 4/1Old Is Gold 7/1Azizam 8/1Utmost Respect 8/1Havana Hurricane 9/1Rogue Supremacy 12/1Tough Critic 12/1Shamam Champion 16/1First Approach 18/122/1 BAR- 22 RunnersFull betting at Oddschecker: horse-racing/royal-ascot/18:10/winnerMarket Mover: Azizam 20/1 into 8/16,10pm WINDSOR CASTLE STAKES previewA big field of two-year-olds for the final race on Wednesday, but a very obvious standout on the ratings as Rogue Legend has at least a stone in hand of every other runner on Timeform’s figures and would have been a live runner in Tuesday’s Group Two Coventry Stakes on that assessment,He raced for a syndicate in the Rogues Gallery Racing operation for his first three starts, having been picked up for 55k gns (£57k) as a yearling, and was then sold to American owner John Stewart’s Resolute Racing operation an undisclosed sum, which almost certainly went some way into seven figures.

If there is going to be one to improve past him, the market suggests it will be Andrew Balding’s Old Is Gold, with James Doyle riding in the Wathnan Racing colours that he steered to a double in the final two races yesterday,He took the Two-Year-Old Trophy at Beverley in May, while Rogue Legend’s former ownership group will have high hopes of a big run from Rogue Supremacy, an easy winner of his only race to date at Wetherby,SELECTION: ROGUE LEGEND1 Miss Information (Oisin Murphy) 11-1 2 Snellen (G F Carroll) 25-1 3 Cheshire Dancer (David Probert) 20-1 4 Muddy Mooy (Edward Greatrex) 33-1 23 ran Non Runner: 205,35pm KENSINGTON PALACE STAKES HANDICAPThey’re off … Arisaig is up there with Rainbows Edge, the royal runner, just behind the leaders … Snellen goes for home but Miss Information finishes best to win for Andrew Balding and jockey Oisin Murphy,A poor week for the royal runners on the track with Rainbows Edge, the favourite, back in seventh at the finishing line.

MISS INFORMATION WINS THE KENSINGTON PALACE STAKES! #ROYALASCOT pic.twitter.com/wiFTIWFDas5.35pm KENSINGTON PALACE STAKES HANDICAP bettingRainbow’s Edge 7/2Sky Safari 9/1Arolla 9/1Serialise 10/1Arisaig 10/1Julia Augusta 16/1Miss Information 16/1Francophone 18/1Cheshire Dancer 18/1Snellen 22/1Thelmas Angel 22/122/1 BAR - 22 Runners5.35pm KENSINGTON PALACE STAKES HANDICAP previewJohn & Thady Gosden got off to a flier yesterday with two winners on the opening day card and his week will get even better here if Rainbows Edge, in the royal colours, can give the King & Queen their second success at this meeting in three years.

Her price of around 4-1 is, fairly inevitably, a point or two shorter than it should be given the competitive nature of this race, but she does at least boast a lightly-raced and progressive four-race profile, having rounded off her three-year-old campaign with a solid second-place finish in a Listed race at Salisbury before winning a handicap over today’s track and trip seven weeks ago.She is closely matched with the re-opposing Arisaig on that form, while other obvious contenders on recent form include James Fanshawe’s Sky Safari, who is very lightly raced on turf and has a definite chance if she settles better for Saffie Osborne than she did for Danny Muscutt last time.At bigger prices, meanwhile, Kayhana bids to add a Royal Ascot winner to her trainer Gavin Cromwell’s success in the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March, while my eye was also drawn to Stephen Thorne’s Independent Expert, at around 25-1.She has more miles on the clock than many of these but is in the early stages of her career with Thorne, who has a top-notch strike-rate already in just his second season with a licence and has also done well with recruits from elsewhere.She got off the mark for her new stable Naas last time, and posted a decent time in the process.

SELECTION: INDEPENDENT EXPERT1 My Cloud (S De Sousa) 3-1 Fav 2 Bullet Point (Tom Marquand) 11-1 3 Bopedro (D Tudhope) 50-1 4 Greek Order (C Soumillon) 22-1 30 ran5pm ROYAL HUNT CUP HANDICAPAnd they’re off … Ancient Rome was a bit slow away … Hi Royal is prominent … they are in three groups with Bullet Point just leading … The Liffey is right up there … My Cloud is trying to get through … and he gets there and lands a monumental gamble!MY CLOUD WINS THE ROYAL HUNT CUP! #ROYALASCOT pic.twitter.com/foMwHTg9EV5pm ROYAL HUNT CUP HANDICAP bettingMy Cloud 4/1Fox Legacy 7/1Qirat 8/1Arabian Light 11/1Bullet Point 12/1The Liffey 12/1Greek Order 18/1Tokenomics 20/1Ancient Rome 20/1Blue Brother 20/122/1 BAR - 30 RunnersFull Oddschecker betting: horse-racing/royal-ascot/17:00/winnerMarket Mover: Arabian Light 18/1 into 10/15pm ROYAL HUNT CUP HANDICAP previewThis is always one of the most competitive and eagerly-awaited handicaps of the season and most of the runners will have been prepared solely with this race in mind.That said, however, the minimum mark to be reasonably sure of getting a run these days is in the low 90s – and this year it is 94, which is bordering on Group-class ability – so the good old days when a handicapping maestro like the late Reg Akehurst could slide something in at the bottom of the weights off a mark in the late 70s are surely gone for good.That said, Roger Varian’s My Cloud, the 4-1 favourite, has just five runs in the book, but has been either first or second in all five and was sent off at odds-on to land his latest start in a Class Two handicap on the straight course at Newbury.

He is 5lb higher in the weights today and has an obvious chance, but has several more “could be anything” opponents to worry about before you come to track specialists like Ralph Beckett’s Qirat, who was touched off in the Victoria Cup here in May.The Liffey, in fact, has only four races to his name and makes his handicap debut here off a mark of 98 – and in first-time headgear – after finishing a promising fourth in a Listed contest at Naas last time.He runs for Joseph O’Brien these days but was with his father, Aidan, for his extremely light juvenile and three-year-old seasons.Bullet Point, who is looking for a four-timer for the super-shrewd William Haggas, while Greek Order is another eye-catcher making his debut for Michael Bell with Christophe Soumillon booked to ride.He started his career with Roger & Harry Charlton, was sent off at just 5-2 favourite for the Cambridgeshire, one of the season’s most competitive handicaps, in 2023 and then spent 2024 and the first months of 2025 with Bill Mott in the US.

He is potentially well-handicapped off 95 if his old talent can be rekindled.And if you are looking for something at a massive price that might run into a place, Roger Fell’s veteran La Trinidad is worth a second look at around 40-1.He is an eight-year-old these days but has been as good as ever in hot handicaps at York and Thirsk on his last two starts.SELECTION: QIRAT1 Ombudsman (W Buick) 7-1 2 Anmaat (Jim Crowley) 5-1 3 See The Fire (Oisin Murphy) 7-2 8 ran Non Runner: 24.20pm PRINCE OF WALES’S STAKESAnd they’re off … Los Angeles is up there along with Continuous who takes the overall lead in the early stages … Royal Champion is in third … Map Of Stars is last as they head for the home straight … Anmaat powers through and takes it up but Ombudsman strikes last and quickens up best for success.

Ombudsman the Prince Of Wales's Stakes under @WilliamBuickX for Godolphin 🔵🏆#RoyalAscot pic.twitter.com/fmny85XOEB4.20pm PRINCE OF WALES’S STAKES bettingLos Angeles 7/4See The Fire 9/2Anmaat 11/2Map Of Stars 11/2Ombudsman 11/2Facteur Cheval 25/1Royal Champion 28/1Continuous 125/1Full betting at Oddschecker: horse-racing/royal-ascot/16:20/winnerMarket Mover: Map Of Stars 7/2 out to 11/24.20pm PRINCE OF WALES’S STAKES previewThe first piece of recent form to consider in Wednesday’s feature event is undoubtedly the Group One Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh last month, when Los Angeles beat Anmaat, last year’s surprise Champion Stakes winner over today’s track and trip, by half a length.

The bare form, though, tells only half the story, as Anmaat, who was making his seasonal debut against a race-fit Los Angeles, travelled like the best horse in the race for much of the way and traded at 1-9 in running on Betfair when he ranged alongside inside the final furlong.Owen Burrows’s gelding was outstayed to the line, but with the race under his belt and back at the scene of his biggest win to date, it would be no surprise at all to see him reverse the form.Even that might not be enough to get the win, though, as See The Fire is a fascinating late addition to the field via a supplementary entry.Andrew Balding’s filly put up a much-improved performance in the Middleton Stakes at York in May, scooting a dozen lengths clear after scything through the pack on the bit.The visual impression was backed up by a strong time and she is a serious contender to get a first Group One win on the board.

French raider Map Of Stars is another runner without a Group One win as yet, but the top-class Sosie, the current favourite for the Arc in October, got first run on him in the Prix Ganay last time and he was finishing best of all.Ombudsman too is in with a big shout, despite losing his unbeaten record when second to Almaqam in the Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown last time, and even the 25-1 shot Facteur Cheval would have a squeak on his best form.Jerome Reynier’s gelding won the Dubai Turf at Meydan in 2024 and was not far away when sixth in the same race in early April.KEY FORM: Tattersalls Gold Cup, the Curragh, 25 May 25 (Los Angeles, Anmaat).https://youtu.

be/Nm__cQjBTGY?feature=sharedPrix Ganay, Longchamp, 27 Apr 25 (Map Of Stars).https://youtu.be/42SlamCZsP0?feature=sharedChampion Stakes, Ascot, 19 Oct 24 (Anmaat, Los Angeles).https://youtu.be/0QXdf7zGexw?feature=sharedMiddleton Stakes, York, 15 May 25 (See The Fire).

https://youtu,be/LfTuXh8vMKo?feature=sharedBrigadier Gerard Stakes, Sandown, 29 May 25 (Ombudsman),https://youtu,be/S68WsLHK1Fk?si=MlwLBx2NjnYKmBiFDubai Turf, Meydan, 30 Mar 24 (Facteur Cheval),https://youtu.

be/UK9A05xfOd8?si=ViTJMEjPBDpTQJzaSELECTION: SEE THE FIRE1 Crimson Advocate (James McDonald) 13-2 2 Cinderella’s Dream (W Buick) 5-4 Fav 3 Fallen Angel (James Doyle) 6-1 7 ran Non Runner: 33,40pm DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE STAKESAnd they’re off … One Look, Fallen Angal and Running Lion are the leaders in te early stages … Running Lion is in the lead on the home turn … she bravely kicks for home but Crimson Advocate comes late and fast for success,That’s three winners for owners Wathnan Racing this week,LAST TO FIRST! CRIMSON ADVOCATE WINS THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE STAKES! #ROYALASCOT pic,twitter.

com/CsUjPX3JUP3.40pm DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE STAKES bettingCinderellas Dream 5/4One Look 4/1Fallen Angel 6/1Running Lion 15/2Soprano 14/1Crimson Advocate 14/1Start Of Day 20/1Full betting here at Oddschecker: horse-racing/royal-ascot/15:40/winnerMarket Mover: Fallen Angel 4/1 out to 6/1Last year’s 1,000 Guineas winner Elmalka has been announced a non-runner in the Duke of Cambridge Stakes (3.40) due to the quickening ground.Our correspondent Greg Wood reports from Ascot that a new course record was set in the Queen’s Vase.CARMERS wins The Queen’s Vase after a close run race, breaking the course record!3.

40pm DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE STAKES previewJust eight runners for this fillies’ and mares’ Group Two, but every last one of them has at least a snippet of form somewhere that a decent lawyer could build a case around.The obvious candidates are Cinderella’s Dream, who took the Group Two Dahlia Stakes with ease last time but carries a 3lb penalty as a result, and Fallen Angel, last season’s Irish 1,000 Guineas winner, who was sixth on her return to action in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury but went off at 20-1 and surely needed the race.Her fine efforts in defeat in the Group One Matron Stakes at the Curragh and then the Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp on Arc weekend in October make her a major player.She is not the only Classic winner in today’s field as Elmaka will attempt to register a first success since edging a blanket finish to the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket last season, although she was handed a comprehensive beating by Cinderella’s Dream in the Dahlia.SELECTION: CINDERELLA’S DREAM1 Carmers (W J Lee) 9-2 2 Furthur (Oisin Murphy) 20-1 3 Rahiebb (S De Sousa) 9-1 13 ran3.

05pm QUEEN’S VASE And they’re off … Shackleton has the early lead … Carmers is close up with Scandinavia among the leaders too … Too Soon is last and they’re at halfway … heading to the home turn … into the straight and Scandinavia is being pushed along … the unbeaten Carmers heads for home … and outstays his rivals to claim a deserved success.A FIRST #ROYALASCOT WINNER FOR PADDY TWOMEY AS CARMERS TAKES THE QUEEN’S VASE! pic.twitter.com/3QImI2FjWzVery sad news that Harry’s Girl suffered a fatal injury in the first race this afternoon.The Richard Hannon-trained filly was ridden by Sean Levey.

Sadly Harrys Girl suffered a Fatal Injury , talented Horse, gone too soon , Rest Easy Harry 🏇🐴😢 💔@rhannonracing @LeveySean pic.twitter.com/lAr6eN8bPO3.05pm QUEEN’S VASE bettingAsmarani 7/2Carmers 9/2Shackleton 11/2Pinhole 7/1Rahiebb 8/1Scandinavia 12/1Further 16/1Spinning Wheel 20/1Titanium Emperor 28/166-1 BAR - 13 RunnersFull Oddschecker betting here: horse-racing/royal-ascot/15:05/winnerMarket Mover: Carmers 7/1 into 9/23.05pm QUEEN’S VASE previewThe first significant three-year-old race of the season at a mile and three-quarters, and while Carmers took the Yeats Stakes at Navan in May over a furlong shorter, every other runner is stepping up at least two furlongs in trip.

Many are likely to post a new career-best as a result, including Aidan O’Brien’s Shackleton, a son of Camelot who was fourth of five on his return to action over 10 furlongs at the Curragh but was stopped in his run and looked sure to improve for a step up in trip.Roger Varian’s Rahiebb comes in with a fairly similar profile to the trainer’s Eldar Eldarov, who landed this in 2022 and went on to win the St Leger, while Asmarani, a product of the late Aga Khan IV’s breeding operation whose pedigree is laden with stamina, is another very interesting contender for Francis-Henri Graffard.He was runner-up to a next-time winner in the Group Three Prix Hocquart at Longchamp in May, is second-in on Timeform ratings on that form and is almost certain to find plenty more now that he goes beyond a mile-and-a-half.Devil’s Advocate, whose dam was a winner at this trip, was fourth in the Dante at York and is another to consider along with O’Brien’s second-string Scandinavia, a maiden winner by Justify out of a Galileo mare, in what looks, on paper at least, to be a cracking renewal of this race.SELECTION: ASMARANI1 True Love (R L Moore) 9-4 Fav 2 Flowerhead (C T Keane) 100-1 3 Lennilu (Luis Saez) 11-2 23 ran Non Runners: 1,62.

30pm QUEEN MARY STAKESAnd they’re off … this will be over very quick … Zelaina is fast away as is Lennilu … True Love is ridden along … but she’s finishing well and goes on stay on strongly to win.That’s another winner for Aidan O’Brien!Another juvenile winner for Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore 👏True Love wins The Queen Mary Stakes ❤️#RoyalAscot pic.twitter.com/BYoE2Lr8eICaroline Davies, the Guardian’s royal correspondent, has written on the news from earlier this afternoon that the Princess of Wales has withdrawn from attending Royal Ascot at the last minute.2.

30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES bettingTrue Love 5/2Zelaina 7/2Society Kiss 6/1Spicy Marg 8/1Cardiff By The Sea 11/1Lennilu 12/1Staya 18/1Harry’s Girl 20/1Love Olivia 25/1BAR 33/1 - 21 RunnersFull betting here: horse-racing/royal-ascot/14:30/winnerMarket Mover: Cardiff By The Sea 18/1 into 11/12.30pm QUEEN MARY STAKES previewRoyal Ascot provides all manner of different challenges for form students and the task here is to identify the winner in a big field of juvenile fillies that - with the exception of a couple of rank outsiders – have all had either one, two or no races at all.Judging the relative merits of lightly-raced two-year-olds is a tricky puzzle that tends to involve a lot of trial and error, but there has been little doubt that Karl Burke’s Zelaina would set off as the favourite for this race since she all the running to win a maiden at Nottingham earlier this month by nearly three lengths.She cost £650k at the breeze-ups earlier this year and was still showing signs of inexperience at Nottingham, so she can be expected to improve significantly for the run (Timeform added a capital “P” to her rating, suggesting that she is open to much more than normal improvement, and they don’t hand those out willy-nilly).Wesley Ward has sent four winners of this race over from his base in the United States, and while he is missing from the meeting this year, there is a still an American presence thanks to Patrick Biancone’s Lennilu.

Biancone won consecutive Arcs in 1983 and 1984 with All Along and Sagace, but has now been training in the States for more than two decades.Lennilu qualified to run via the Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies at Gulfstream, which you can watch – with commentary in Spanish, as it’s the only one I could find – here, and Timeform were sufficiently impressed by that run to make her their second-top runner in the race on ratings behind Aidan O’Brien’s True Love.Lennilu’s work rider and groom for the trip, incidentally, will be the trainer’s daughter, Andie, whose main job is as a reporter and analyst on the American racing channel, FanDuel TV.True Love, meanwhile, had her form behind stable-companion Gstaad at Navan in May seriously boosted on Tuesday when Gstaad ran out a comfortable winner of the Coventry Stakes.A raft of other contenders with a single run and win to their name include Spicy Marg and Staya, and while Spicy Marg took a Newmarket novice that has produced two Royal Ascot winners in the last three years, Staya also put up a taking performance in her Yarmouth maiden.

She travelled well, eased through towards the lead, quickened when required and clocked a decent time for a debutant, so a price of around 16-1 is a fair each-way option in an open race.SELECTION: STAYAQueen’s Hat Stakes 2pm result1.Green (again) 12-1.As the royal procession makes its way down the track I am duty bound to remind my regular reader of the Serpentine gallery exhibition by artist Mark Wallinger I saw back in 1994 when one of his installations, called ‘Royal Ascot’, consisted of a series of video monitors on top of wheeled flight cases, each isolating the royal carriage’s leisurely progress down the track on the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (respectively, as it was then) of the meeting with, as the British Council points out in their description of the artwork, “the difference from day to day is barely discernible, just as the four commentaries merge in a confused blather.”6