Four bets for Royal Ascot next week
Admittedly, next week he has to take on arguably the best horse in training in the form of Field of Gold but this race might just cut up to less than eight runners by the off, in which case the current three places would be attractive. For starters, the likes of Shadow of Light and Jonquil are more likely to run instead in the Commonwealth Cup and I suspect there may be one or two other defections amongst the 11 runners who accepted earlier this week.
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