Top Five Royal Ascot Tips

The 2009 Royal Ascot meeting is almost upon us and we thought it was a good idea to share our top five Royal Ascot tips. The Royal Ascot meeting is one of the most popular in the British horse racing calendar and is just as well known for it’s high fashion and famous attendees as it is for the actual horse racing. Here are our five tips to make Ascot as enjoyable and profitable as it can be!

Ignore Aidan O’Brien at your peril
The O’Brien stable cleaned up at last year’s Royal Ascot meeting. The stable have been in fine form so far this season and I’d expect more of the same this time around even though stable jockey Johnny Murtagh is suspended for 2 days. Aidan O’Brien has a particularly good record in the Coventry Stakes having won with Henrythenavigator, Statute Of Liberty, Landseer, Fasliyev, and Harbour Master in recent years. He is represented by Steinbeck in the 2009 Coventry Stakes renewal and the horse warrants respect.

Prince of Wales Stakes a race for punters
A Group 1 race contested over 1m2f, the Prince of Wales stakes is a punter’s paradise with the last 8 winners all having been single figure odds. All winners had also won a Group 1 contest previously in that period. Look for horses that are proven at this trip.

Don’t be afraid of an outsider on Saturday
The Golden Jubilee Stakes, which takes place on the Saturday of the 2009 Royal Ascot meeting, is a race where you can look for a big priced runner to back with only one winning favourite since 1997 and many at very big prices in that period including last years winner Kingsgate Native at 33/1.

Watch your weight
Wednesday’s Royal Hunt Cup has seen only 2 winners carry more than 9st 5lbs to victory in the last decade. Similarly, Saturday’s Wokingham Stakes has produced just one winner carrying over 9st 6lbs in the last decade. Look for runners in both of these events that are carrying less than the weights stated and you’ll make your chances of winner finding a lot more likely.

Keep John Best on your side
Last year’s Royal Ascot was very special for trainer John Best with Flashman Papers winning the Windsor Castle Stakes at 100/1 as well as Kingsgate Native’s victory in the Golden Jubilee Stakes at 33/1. Although the Kent based trainer is sure to be on the radar of my punters this time around, his runners will likely still be available at decent prices when up against some of the bigger yards.

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