That’s this blog wrapped for the day.We’ll be back tomorrow.Don’t forget to gaze through Tom Jenkins’s photo gallery.6.10 Royal Ascot result1st Adrestia 10/12nd Hammer The Hammer 9/23rd Redorange 12/14th Zayer 16/124 ran,Non-runner 15, 16, 18, 3A fine winner from Oisin Murphy who seems the best judge of these races, give or take Ryan Moore.

Realign was nowhere there as another fav goes down.Hammer The Hammer ran very well from start to finish.“It was a great spot.I’m delighted for all His Highness in Bahrain.Today she had the right conditions.

I’m trying hard but I have a long way to go until I can match what Frankie Dettori achieved,”“It was the only one we thought could win,” says Simon Crisford, the trainer,“The sheikh will be loving every minute of it,I knew she had eight, nine pounds in hand,”They load up quickly for one last Friday cavalry charge.

Ruby’s Profit up there early, as is Hammer the Hammer.They are spread across the track.Red Orange and Adrestia are the contenders, and it’s another winner for Oisin Murphy, with Hammer The Hammer in second.That’s a winner from stall 23.Here’s that Chris Gayle clip.

🏏‼️ 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦 𝗚𝗔𝗬𝗟𝗘 𝗔𝗧 𝗥𝗢𝗬𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗧 ‼️🏏This man's energy is unrivalled 😆 pic.twitter.com/feKts5ysYn6.10 pm Palace Of Holyrood Stakes oddsRealign 9/2Hammer The Hammer 11/2Brighton Boy 7/1Adrestia 9/1Dark Cloud Rising 11/1Miss Lamai 12/1Redorange 12/1Zayer 12/1Mr Lightside 18/1Jorge Alvares 20/1Stormy Impact 22/1BAR 22/1 - 24 StartersOdds v OddscheckerRealign the most popular bet today with 17% of total bets.Miss Lamia second with 12%.

5.35pm Royal Ascot result1st Amiloc 11/8 fav2nd Zahrann 11/43rd Galveston 20/1Nine ranNon-runners 8, 2Ralph Beckett, winning trainer.“He wasn’t looking for the line.He’s a gelding, we had conversations over whether he should come.It all worked out.

I wouldn’t be afraid to take anyone over slower ground.He’s in everything.[King George} if there’s some juice in the ground.”So, a win at last for Ralph Beckett, and Amiloc looked sharp from the start for Rossa Ryan.That’s Beckett’s seventh overall, and Ryan’s horse looks good for the Eclipse or King George.

“He travelled great,” says Rossa,“Because he hated the ground out there,He’s had a busy enough spring, and he’s had a hard race,Been a couple of difficult weeks, losing horses, but the pressure’s right off now,”Amiloc is heavy fav over Zahrann as they go in.

There’s a delay as Minhad, the outsider, takes a while to go in.And he’s first in.Amiloc broke quickly, which was unexpected.Galveston under Ryan Moore takes up the early pace.Green Storm is the backmarker.

Amiloc is sat in second.Galveston takes them up and down Swinley Bottom.He’s trying to win this wire to wire.Moore has set off at a rate and Amiloc goes clear.Amiloc is all out as they go over the line, Zahrann was the second, as forecast.

Galveston held on for third.5.35 King Edward VII Stakes oddsAmiloc 11/8Zahrann 11/4Wimbledon Hawkeye 11/1Green Storm 12/1Nightwalker 12/1Opportunity 14/1Regal Ulixes 14/1Galveston 18/1Minhad 80/1Odds via Oddschecker69% of all stakes today have backed Amiloc or Zahrann.Chris Gayle, the cricketing legend, just did a star turn on ITV, cigar in hand, looking resplendent.Look out for it on social media.

That was a true star turn.“My horse is still running,” he says.That was even more of a bloodbath for fav backers.Racingblogger will presumably be hitching home from Ascot, boys.It’s been quiet on the course, too.

Perhaps it’s just too hot.Royal Ascot 5.00 result1 Never Let Go (K Shoemark) 22-12 Cajole (Saffie Osborne) 25-13 Tabiti (C T Keane) 18-14 Oolong Poobong (Connor Beasley) 10-125 ranAlso: 16-5 Fav Miss NightfallNon Runners: 7,10,14A winner coming the far side, and for Kieran Shoemark, jocked off by the Gosden team, who judged it beautifully.That’s one for Ed Walker, his trainer.Shoemark speaks after his second ever Royal Ascot winner.

“I was always looking to the far side, she’s got a high finishing speed,She’s a filly that’s not short of speed,That’s the first time I ever sat on her,You just got to remain positive as a professional athlete,You have to hope things will change, and they did change.

”Here comes the fillies handicap over the straight mile.Miss Nightfall and Dash of Azure lead the betting.Lots of money coming in for the royal horse, Purple Rainbow.It’s all a bit heated as they wait to go into the stalls.Purple Rainbow goes into 8-1, the son of Night of Thunder.

Dancing Teapot, the Joseph O’Brien horse, under cult hero CD Hayes, is also fancied.They go straight across the course and then split, the second group down the centre.Easy On The Eye is the early leader, and then they close up.Miss Nightfall is trapped.The field spreads out, Never Let Go takes it from Tabiti and Oolong Poolong.

Cajole was in there, too.Here’s Cercene winning the Group One feature race.33/1! CERCENE WINS THE CORONATION STAKES! #ROYALASCOT pic.twitter.com/cba83YNxWV5.

00 pm Sandringham Stakes oddsMiss Nightfall 3/1Dash Of Azure 6/1Silver Ghost 15/2Betty Clover 8/1Zgharta 10/1Oolong Poobong 12/1Alfareqa 14/1Purple Rainbow 14/1Arabian Leopard 14/1Dancing Teapot 20/1BAR 22/1 - 25 StartersOdds via OddscheckerBiggest single win bet today has been on Dash Of Azure @ 7/1.Joe Murphy and Gary Carroll receive the Coronation Stakes trophy from King Charles and pose for photos.They couldn’t be more happy.Francis Graffard is very sporting on Zarigana’s loss.“I will have to look for the blinkers,” he says.

Princess Zahra, daughter of the late Aga Khan, says the horse has done a good enough job to be sent to stud,“Like her mother, she’s a bit nuts,” says the princess,Joe Murphy, winning trainer of Cercene,“It’s 50 years of work, switching from the jumps to the flat,It’s a lifetime’s dream, she’s the sire of Australia, who I love.

If she was an inch bigger, I wouldn’t have it.Gary gave her a great ride.She’s very tough, very resilient.The plan was for today so we draw up new plans.”Royal Ascot 4.

20 result1 Cercene (G F Carroll) 33-12 Zarigana (M Barzalona) 6-4 Fav3 January (R L Moore) 8-111 ranAlso: 33-1 Cathedral 4thBig win for trainer Joseph Murphy, and a fine ride from Gary Carroll, the jockey.“This was my first Group One and if I wanted to win it was for Joe Murphy.She ran a blinder at the Curragh but the slow pace didn’t suit.She’s very tough, she wanted to win.So hard to come by, good horses, some get only one in their lifetime but she’s magic.

She’s taken a step forward from the Guineas.”Ken Pitterson, the paddock expert, is well taken by Chantilly Lace, the Beckett horse.He fancies Falakeyah, though.It’s baking heat out there in Royal Berkshire.They go away well, Duty First goes forward, with Exactly, the Ballydoyle pacemaker.

January is at the back.Falakeyah wants the lead but there’s plenty of chances, Zarigana looks to have it but Cercene holds them off to win at 33/1.January couldn’t take advantage of the pacemaker.The daughter of Australia gets it done.3.

40pm Coronation Stakes oddsZarigana 6/4Falakeyah 3/1January 7/1Kon Tiki 9/1Exactly 11/1Chantilly Lace 20/1Flight 22/1Cercene 22/1Cathedral 40/1Simmering 66/1Duty First 66/1Odds via Oddschecker56% of total money staked today has backed Zarigana or FalakeyahA quiet day so far for the O’Brien team, but the feature race may deliver, with January being ridden by Ryan Moore.Zarigana – the French Guineas winner, on a technicality – is favourite.Lots of money coming for her in this fillies race.“He was going well enough to go where he wanted to go, unlike last year,” said Willie Mullins.“York, that’s where we normally go from here