Royal Ascot Tips & Preview | Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Lineup

9:30AM ET | Queen Anne S. (Group 1)
10:05AM ET | Coventry S. (Group 2)
10:45AM ET | King Charles III S. (Group 1)
11:25AM ET | St. James’s Palace S. (Group 1)
12:05PM ET | Ascot H.
12:40PM ET | Wolferton S.
1:15PM ET | Copper Horse H.

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Picks

Royal Ascot Day 1 Preview & Pick Sheet from UK’s At the Races | DOWNLOAD

Queen Anne Video Preview

Wolferton Stakes Video Preview

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Setting the Scene

Royal Ascot kicks off Tuesday with four massive Group 1 or 2 races, including the race being dubbed the ‘Race of the Week,’ the Group 1 St. James’s Palace Stakes. For the first time since 2016, the winners of all three 2,000 Guineas – England (Notable Speech), France (Metropolitan) and Ireland (Rosallion) – will face off in this one-mile event. Add in two from Aidan O’Brien’s barn – Henry Longfellow and Breeders’ Cup winner Unquestionable – and this is not a race that should be missed. Familiar face Big Evs (Winner of last year’s Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Sprint) headlines the King Charles III. The action kicks off at 9:30AM ET, and all races are available on 1/ST BET and Xpressbet.

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American Runners

The 2024 American contingent at Royal Ascot appears lighter than 2023, with only a single runner on opening day. Crimson Advocate is a 20/1 outsider in the Group 1 King Charles III (Race 3), where the three-year-old filly, now a member of John Gosden’s yard, will take on older horses. Last summer, she parlayed a victory in the inaugural running of Gulfstream’s Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies to a win in Royal Ascot’s Group 2 Queen Mary and was most recently seen winning the Roar Stakes on turf at Gulfstream Park. William Buick has the mount.

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20% Exacta Winnings Boost

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