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Royal Ascot 2026: A Week of Champions and What's Next at Churchill Downs
From longshot winners to Group 1 upsets, here's your recap, plus a look ahead to Saturday's $2 million Stephen Foster (G1) at Churchill Downs.
International
Royal Ascot 2026: Selections for Saturday, June 20
A “Win and You’re In” for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1), a rematch from the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1), and a global sprint showdown are the highlights of Saturday’s grand finale at Royal Ascot.
Analysis
Betting the Handicaps at Royal Ascot for Day 5 on June 20
The big handicap is the time-honored Wokingham Stakes, first run in 1813.
Analysis
Betting the Handicaps at Royal Ascot for Day 4 on June 19
Day four at Royal Ascot has another great selection of handicaps for punters.
International
Royal Ascot 2026: Selections for Friday, June 19
The bookies overseas might be quaking in their boots on Friday as there will be some heavily backed horses that will take some beating.
International
Royal Ascot 2026: Selections for Thursday, June 18
Day 3 of Royal Ascot has a slightly different look this year, but the 2 1/2-mile Gold Cup (G1) remains the centerpiece.
International
Betting the Handicaps at Royal Ascot for Day 3 on June 18
With large fields of well-weighted horses, it's not easy to figure out which is largely why we’ve decided to look closely at one handicap per day rather than taking a light look at all of them.
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Royal Ascot 2026: Selections for Wednesday, June 17
Ombudsman will try to defend his title from Daryz and Minnie Hauk in Wednesday’s Prince of Wales’s (G1), and don’t miss the four American shippers in the opener.
Analysis
Betting the Handicaps at Royal Ascot for Day 2 on June 17
There are 30 horses in an over-one-mile cavalry charge over the straight course, and finding the horse you backed during the running is a challenge.
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Five longshots of interest at Royal Ascot 2026
Thanks to the sheer size and competitiveness of the fields at Royal Ascot, it’s a sure thing that some longshots will jump up over the course of the five-day stand.
International
Royal Ascot 2026: Selections for Tuesday, June 16
The most prestigious summer festival of all starts with a bang on Tuesday, as Royal Ascot stages three Group 1s and a Group 2 for juveniles who harbor top-level ambitions.
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The 2026 Royal Ascot Betting Guide Free Download
Five days, 35 races, more than £10.6 million in prize money and TwinSpires has you covered from first post to last.
Wagering
Betting the Handicaps at Royal Ascot for Day 1 on June 16
The Ascot Stakes is an interesting race, but I’m going with Kizlyar to put up a nice performance at generous odds.
Wagering
Five clashes to savor at Royal Ascot 2026
The Royal Ascot festival runs Tuesday through Saturday, with spectacular clashes on tap throughout all five days.
Analysis
Royal Ascot 2026: Australian, Japanese contenders loom large in sprints
The five challengers at Royal Ascot from Australia and Japan – Overpass, Joliestar, Asfoora, Satono Reve, and Lugal – all have two things in common: speed and class.
Horse
Royal Ascot and U.S. bettors: Five key factors driving interest
The premier British festival, slated for June 16-20, 2026, has taken on even greater importance for U.S. racing fans in recent years.
Features
Top 10 takeaways from 2025 Royal Ascot
“This place tames lions. It is so special to win here because it's so tough.”
Features
Horse Racing This Weekend: Key Races, Top Horses & Best Bets [June 21-22]
Find out everything you need to know about key races, top horse, and best bets with TwinSpires horse racing this weekend.
Best Bets
International horse racing betting tips and schedule: Final day of Royal Ascot and more
Enjoy Greater Britian and Irish racing picks and schedules as horse racing enthusiasts switch to the international front with their focus on Ascot Racecourse for the Royal Ascot and more. With a jam packed week of racing, there is no shortage of lucrative betting opportunities.
Analysis
2025 Royal Ascot Spot Plays for Saturday
Saturday is closing day at Royal Ascot, and we’ve got seven more top-class races on tap before we close the door on one of racing’s most prestigious meets.
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Royal Ascot 2025: Selections for Saturday
An international cast of sprinters assembles for the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee (G1), the feature on Saturday’s closing day at Royal Ascot.
Analysis
International horse racing betting tips and schedule: Royal Ascot, Newmarket, and more
Enjoy Greater Britain and Irish horse racing betting tips and schedules as horse racing enthusiasts switch to the international front with their focus on Ascot Racecourse for the Royal Ascot and more
Racing
2025 Royal Ascot Spot Plays for Friday
We’ve got a field of 22 runners set to go postward in Friday’s featured handicap race at Royal Ascot.
International
Royal Ascot 2025: Selections for Friday
Day 4 at Royal Ascot is highlighted by the Coronation (G1) and Commonwealth Cup (G1), both of which appear top-heavy in terms of depth.
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International racing picks and schedule: Royal Ascot, Leopardstown and more
Enjoy Greater Britian and Irish racing picks and schedules as horse racing enthusiasts switch to the international front with their focus on Ascot Racecourse for the Royal Ascot and more. With a jam packed week of racing, there is no shortage of lucrative betting opportunities.
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Royal Ascot Spot Plays for Thursday
We move on to Thursday’s action at Royal Ascot, and we’ve got two highly competitive handicap races to pick from.
Racing
Royal Ascot 2025: Selections for Thursday
Day 3 of Royal Ascot has as its traditional centerpiece the Gold Cup (G1) over 2 1/2 miles, and it's also the card where I'll resume my bankroll plays for the 2025 British flat season.
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2025 Royal Ascot Spot Plays for Wednesday
Wednesday’s handicap race of choice at Royal Ascot is the Royal Hunt Cup.
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Royal Ascot 2025: Selections for Wednesday
The highlight of day two of Royal Ascot, Wednesday’s Prince of Wales’s (G1), serves as a “Win and You’re In” for the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1).
Analysis
Free 2025 Royal Ascot Betting Guide: Picks, Analysis, Tips, and Handicapping
The Official Free 2025 Royal Ascot Betting Guide has arrived! Explore expert picks, longshots, handicapping, analysis and tips for the day's racing
Tournaments
Royal Ascot: Handicapping Tuesday's packed fields
These races draw massive fields (Tuesday’s handicap race in question has a field of 20), and they can provide great value if you connect with a strong opinion.
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Royal Ascot 2025: Selections for Tuesday
Three Group 1 prizes, including two Breeders’ Cup Challenge races, and a typically loaded juvenile contest live up to the meeting’s reputation as a handicapping challenge.
Analysis
Royal Ascot 2025: Five longshots to know
Here are five contenders, trading at double digits as we begin the week, who are worth knowing in their respective Group races.
Analysis
Royal Ascot 2025: Australian Asfoora goes for title defense; Satono Reve flies flag for Japan
Royal Ascot has lured Australian mare Asfoora for a title defense in Tuesday’s King Charles III (G1), and Japan seeks a breakthrough with Satono Reve in Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee (G1).
Analysis
Horse Racing This Weekend: Key Races, Top Horses & Best Bets [June 14-15]
Find out everything you need to know about key races, top horse, and best bets with TwinSpires horse racing this weekend.
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Royal Ascot 2025: Five stars to watch
By definition, Royal Ascot showcases star performers throughout its festive week. Here’s one to watch for each of the five days.
Wagering
Royal Ascot 2025: Carl Spackler leads U.S. shippers
Although Wesley Ward will not be represented at Royal Ascot 2025, there is plenty of U.S. interest over the course of the week.
Features
TwinSpires.com announces Royal Ascot Challenge Series
TwinSpires.com, the official online betting partner of the Kentucky Derby, is expanding its repertoire of tournaments to an iconic event on the international stage – Royal Ascot.
International
Racing Roundtable: Royal Ascot recap and Batten Down's future
This week, the Racing Roundtable analyzes Royal Ascot's five-day meeting, Batten Down's future following his Ohio Derby (G3) win, and what else stood out from the weekend of racing.
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Top 10 takeaways from Royal Ascot 2024
How do you distill five fantastic days of racing, at a sun-baked Royal Ascot? Very subjectively! Here are my main impressions from the week:
Analysis
2024 Royal Ascot: Selections for Saturday
Saturday’s finale features three Group races, anchored by another competitive sprint in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee (G1), and a 17-strong field of juveniles in the Chesham S.
Expert Picks
2024 Royal Ascot Handicaps: How to bet Saturday’s Wokingham Stakes
Royal Ascot’s handicap roster finishes Saturday with one of the highlights of the week, the Wokingham Stakes.
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Royal Ascot 2024: Selections for Friday
A pair of Group 1s highlight Day 4 of Royal Ascot on Friday, led by the Coronation (G1) for three-year-old fillies.
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2024 Royal Ascot Handicaps: How to bet Friday’s Duke of Edinburgh Stakes
Handicaps play a large part on Day 4 at Royal Ascot, with three in play, and the focus here will be on the only handicap on Friday for older horses: the 1 1/2-mile Duke of Edinburgh Stakes.
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2024 Royal Ascot: Selections for Thursday
Several strong favorites, including the decorated stayer Kyprios, will be prominent in Royal Ascot's Group race offerings on Thursday. But I'll take a stand against all of them in the hope of hitting one or more home runs.
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2024 Royal Ascot Handicaps: How to bet Thursday’s Britannia Stakes
Gold Cup Day at Royal Ascot features three competitive handicaps. All three look to offer great opportunities for players.
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Royal Ascot Handicaps: How to Bet Wednesday’s Royal Hunt Cup
There’s arguably no more exciting handicap at Royal Ascot, for spectators and players, than Wednesday’s Royal Hunt Cup.
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2024 Royal Ascot: Selections for Wednesday
The centerpiece of Wednesday’s card at Royal Ascot, the Prince of Wales’s (G1), often produces one of the week’s enduring highlights. The 1 1/4-mile affair promises to deliver once again, as Breeders’ Cup stars Auguste Rodin and Inspiral square off in this “Win and You’re In” for the Turf (G1).
Expert Picks
2024 Royal Ascot: Selections for Tuesday
Royal Ascot opens with its customary bang on Tuesday. Three Group 1s – including two Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” (WAYI) events and a stellar renewal of the St James’s Palace (G1) – plus the marquee juvenile race of the meeting, the Coventry (G2), make for quite a wagering menu.
Expert Picks
2024 Royal Ascot Handicaps: How to bet Tuesday’s Ascot Stakes
If you’re a horse player, the best part about Royal Ascot is often the handicaps. With horses generally weighted close to their best form, they are nearly always open affairs, and big prices are common.
Analysis
Free 2024 Royal Ascot Betting Guide: Picks, Analysis, Tips, and Trends
Find out everything you need to know for betting the five-day Royal Ascot meeting beginning on Tuesday, June 18! Download our FREE 2024 Royal Ascot Betting Guide.
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2024 Royal Ascot: 5 longshots to consider
At this stage, the fields are coming together enough to try to find possible sleepers.
Wagering
2024 Royal Ascot: Top 10 storylines
The most anticipated event of the British summer season returns this week, as Royal Ascot stages its action-packed five-day meeting Tuesday through Saturday.
Analysis
2024 Royal Ascot: Top 5 favorites to watch
Royal Ascot attracts star power of both the equine and human variety throughout its five-day meeting. For that reason, even strong favorites can get upstaged by other top-class rivals.
Analysis
2024 Royal Ascot: U.S. shippers include proven course performers
The U.S. shippers descending on Royal Ascot this year include not only the usual batch of speedy juveniles, but also past winners at the meeting.
Analysis
Royal Ascot 2023: Top 10 takeaways
While the proliferation of longshots was a recurring theme of Royal Ascot 2023, there’s much more to be gleaned from the five action-packed days. Here’s my synthesis, in top 10 style.
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Betting Intelligence: June 24 stakes from Royal Ascot to Thistledown
After quick notes on Saturday’s Royal Ascot finale, I’ll highlight contenders to watch in several stateside stakes.
Wagering
2023 Royal Ascot: Selections for Saturday
The final day of racing at Royal Ascot brings three more group stakes. A mix of favorites and longshots might be the recipe for success when betting Saturday’s card.
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2023 Royal Ascot: Selections for Friday
Several of the strongest favorites of the week will be in action on Day 4 of the Royal Ascot meet on Friday, but they might not all be slam dunks.
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2023 Royal Ascot: Selections for Thursday
Day 3 of Royal Ascot on Thursday includes the meet centerpiece, the 2 1/2-mile Gold Cup (G1), but we start the Group action off with a pair of races which feature a couple of short-priced favorites.
Racing
2023 Royal Ascot: Selections for Wednesday
The Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” Prince of Wales’s (G1) is the highlight of Royal Ascot Wednesday, with a small but select field squaring off. Enhancing the day’s puzzles are an incredibly tricky Queen Mary (G2) with 28 juvenile fillies, and a Queen’s Vase (G2) with perhaps more than usual strength in depth among three-year-old stayers.
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2023 Royal Ascot and What to Know: Expert picks, analysis, horses and times
Royal Ascot post time each day is 9:30 a.m. (EDT) (2:30 p.m. local time). Seven races are held daily for five days.
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Five longshots to know for 2023 Royal Ascot
While the build-up to Royal Ascot centers upon the favorites in the marquee races, longshots can pop up throughout the festival.
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2023 Royal Ascot: Selections for Tuesday
The Royal Ascot meeting gets off to a rollicking start Tuesday with two “Win and You’re In” events for the Breeders’ Cup, the Queen Anne (G1) for older milers and the King’s Stand (G1) for the speediest sprinters.
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Royal Ascot 2023: Lady Aurelia's son American Rascal tops Ward's hopes
Trainer Wesley Ward makes his annual raid on Royal Ascot with a four-strong team including American Rascal (the first foal of a past superstar of this meeting, Lady Aurelia) and Twilight Gleaming. But there are U.S. shippers from other barns as well.
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Breeders' Cup Challenge events among must-see clashes at Royal Ascot 2023
As the show-stopping summer racing festival, Royal Ascot invariably serves up compelling fare. North American fans have an added incentive to watch the four Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” (WAYI) events, but the top-drawer action spans the entire five days from June 20-24.
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Australians Artorius, The Astrologist set for Royal Ascot's 2023 Jubilee
We continue our look at the Australian team for Royal Ascot with the two contenders for the June 24 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee (G1), Artorius and The Astrologist.
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Royal Ascot 2023: Australians Coolangatta, Cannonball aim for King's Stand
One year after Australian speedster Nature Strip ran his rivals ragged at Royal Ascot, two of his compatriots will try to follow up his performance in the King's Stand (G1).
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Remembering Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Ascot winners
A ubiquitous presence at the Royal meeting until the last few years of her life, Elizabeth II enjoyed a fair amount of success at the fixture.
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Royal Ascot 2023: Hong Kong's Wellington looms in Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee
Hong Kong champion Wellington commands respect in his first international venture in the June 24 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee (G1) at Royal Ascot.
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Hanson: Reviewing my 12 years of handicapping Royal Ascot
The 2023 Royal Ascot meeting will be my 13th at offering selections on Thursday and Friday of the five-day fixture, which runs from June 20-24.
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2022 Royal Ascot: Selections for Saturday
Saturday’s grand finale at Royal Ascot showcases prohibitive favorites in two of the stakes events, but the marquee sprints could be ripe for big prices. Fifteen were declared for the Jersey (G3), and a 27-horse cavalry charge is lining up for the Platinum Jubilee (G1).
Racing
Royal Ascot Handicaps 2022: Golden Gates Stakes
A rare runner by Quality Road in Europe, Missed The Cut looks to be a horse going places and he will be hard to beat.
Racing
Royal Ascot Handicaps 2022: Duke of Edinburgh Stakes
There are few races Queen Elizabeth II would enjoy winning more at Royal Ascot this year than the handicap named after her late husband. But can #8 Just Fine come through?
Racing
2022 Royal Ascot: Selections for Friday
Day 4 of Royal Ascot 2022 is highlighted by three-year-olds: fillies over the Round Mile in the Coronation (G1), preceded by colt and filly sprinters in the six-furlong Commonwealth Cup (G1).
Racing
Royal Ascot Handicaps 2022: King George V Stakes
This year’s King George V Stakes has attracted 19 runners, and looks a great betting contest.
Racing
Royal Ascot: Easy-to-play Omni/Swinger bet for the Norfolk
It can be tricky to handicap early-season stakes for juveniles like the Norfolk S. (G2) taking place on Thursday at Royal Ascot in England. But betting an Omni/Swinger is an easy place to start.
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2022 Royal Ascot: Selections for Thursday
Day 3 of Royal Ascot on Thursday includes the meet centerpiece, the 2 1/2-mile Gold Cup (G1), which fan favorite Stradivarius will attempt to win for a fourth time.
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Royal Ascot Handicaps 2022: Royal Hunt Cup
With a minimum £175,000 (about $210,000) in purse money, the Royal Hunt Cup is the equal-most valuable handicap at the meeting.
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2022 Royal Ascot: Selections for Wednesday
Wednesday’s card at Royal Ascot centers on the Prince of Wales’s (G1), a “Win and You’re In” for the Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1). A small but select field of five, with a muddled pace scenario, could make things trickier for the favorites.
Racing
Royal Ascot: Easy-to-play exacta bet for the Prince of Wales's Stakes
Day 2 of racing at Royal Ascot in England takes place on Wednesday with the prestigious Prince of Wales’s S. (G1) serving as the feature event.
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Royal Ascot Handicaps 2022: Ascot Stakes
The first of the big handicaps at Royal Ascot is also the longest. Run over 2 1/2 miles, the Ascot Stakes is highly competitive.
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2022 Royal Ascot: Selections for Tuesday
Tuesday’s opening-day card at Royal Ascot features three Group 1 contests, two of them Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” events, plus a Group 2 replete with up-and-coming juveniles.
Racing
Royal Ascot: Easy-to-play Omni/Swinger bet for the Queen Anne
If you want to dip your toes into wagering on Royal Ascot, we recommend starting with an Omni/Swinger bet on the Queen Anne S. (G1).
Racing
Shahryar, Grenadier Guards fly flag for Japan at 2022 Royal Ascot
Shahryar has the credentials to amend Japan's Royal Ascot record in the Prince of Wales’s (G1).
Racing
Royal Ascot: Easy-to-play Omni/Swinger bet for the King's Stand
As a “Win and You’re In” qualifier for the 2022 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1), Tuesday’s prestigious King’s Stand S. (G1) at Royal Ascot in England is well worth watching (and betting).
Racing
Nature Strip heads strong Australian team at Royal Ascot
Australians haven’t come to Royal Ascot in such large numbers in the last decade. But this year they are triple-handed, and two of them are absolute top-liners.
Racing
A longshot for every day of Royal Ascot 2022
While Royal Ascot showcases the talents of the superstars, the ultra-competitiveness of the summer festival can also produce some big prices. Here are five contenders likely to get overlooked amid the depth on offer.
Racing
Five British stars to watch at 2022 Royal Ascot
Here are five celebrities who can light up each day at Royal Ascot for the home team.
Racing
Ward's Golden Pal, Campanelle top American hopes at 2022 Royal Ascot
Twelve-time Royal Ascot winner Wesley Ward returns to the June 14-18 meeting with Golden Pal and Campanelle leading his team. But a few other American-based horsemen are also taking the plunge.
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How to handicap Royal Ascot stakes for juveniles
One of the distinguishing features of Royal Ascot is the six stakes devoted to two-year-olds during the annual five-day meeting.
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