UK Horse Racing Tips

Royal Ascot, one of the biggest betting events of the racing year, sees punters rightly looking for decent-priced winners with hugely competitive odds on offer for each and every race, but there are three apparently rock solid short-priced favourites who look set to provide plenty of punting ammunition for the five days as a whole, writes Elliot Slater.

With so many horse racing tips flying around for each and every race it’s sometimes easy to miss the wood for the trees, so here are three fairly short-priced horses who really should take all the beating at the royal fixture. They should provide your ‘bread and butter’ punting money for the bigger odds opportunities along the way.

In the very first race of the meeting, the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes, there have been stacks of horse racing tips for the Richard Hannon-trained Toronado, available in places at around even money. In what looks to be a below-par renewal of this showcase event over the straight mile the son of High Chaparral can gain compensation for the narrowest of defeats at the meeting 12 months ago, when he lost out by just a short-head in a titanic duel with the Qipco 2000 Guineas winner Dawn Approach in a memorable battle for the St James’s Palace Stakes.

Richard Hughes ‘ mount subsequently gained his revenge on Dawn Approach in another great race for the Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood a month later, before running an uncharacteristic stinker on his first attempt at 10 furlongs when last of six in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York in August. Reported to be in fine shape ahead of this belated seasonal reappearance, Toronado can get favourite backers off to a flying start for the five-day fixture.

Also on day one (June 17) we the St James’s Palace Stakes sees the rematch between Qipco 2000 Guineas winner Night of Thunder and the runner-up Kingman, who subsequently went on to hack up by five lengths in the Irish equivalent. There’s no doubt that Night of Thunder covered more ground at Newmarket and almost certainly deserved his win, but Kingman really looked to have progressed when bolting in at the Curragh and with some give anticipated underfoot he has plenty going for him as he bids to take his revenge on his HQ conqueror. At around even money Kingman looks one to have on your side.

The other hotpot that will really take some beating at Royal Ascot is the star French filly Treve, who tasted her first even career defeat when narrowly edged out by the superb Cirrus des Aigles in the Prix Ganay at Longchamp on April and bids for compensation in the Group 1 Prince of Wales’s Stakes (Wednesday June 18). Andre Fabre’s brilliant Prix de l’Arc de Triomnphe winner was almost certainly not fully wound up for her seasonal bow and has reportedly been doing everything asked of her in training of late.

At around 8/11 there have understandably been masses of horse racing tips for the four-year-old filly, but she really does have the look of a ‘good thing’. Breeders’ Cup Turf hero Magician would appear to be her main danger but had a hard race at the Curragh recently when bogged down in the mud and only second by Noble Mission.

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