Ascot is famous as a world-class racecourse, conference and sporting venue and home of the Royal Ascot race meeting. Located 6 miles from Windsor, Ascot Racecourse was founded by Queen Anne in 1711 and is still in Royal ownership today. Up until 1945, the only racing that took place at Ascot Racecourse was the Royal Ascot meeting, but since 1945 many more racing fixtures including major races like the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes are run at Ascot Racecourse. When they’re not playing host to Royal Ascot in June, Ascot Racecourse has a full racing fixtures calendar, including the Qipco British Champions Day + supporting entertainment attracting a wide audience; from occasional racegoers on a fun day out, to serious racing aficionados. Ascot Racecourse however is best known for Royal Ascot, which Her Majesty The Queen attends every day. One of the highlights of this truly unmissable royal race meeting is the Royal Procession with HM The Queen in an open carriage making its way from the Golden Gates along the racecourse and into the Parade Ring at 2.00 pm each day. Ascot Racecourse is located 36 miles from London (a 50 minute drive), and 15 miles from Reading, near the junction between the A329 and A330. Access from M3 (Junc 3) and M4 (Junc 6) Frequent rail service from Waterloo to Ascot, station adjoins course.
Ascot & Haydock selections Saturday 22nd November Top class jumps racing everywhere you look and the Betfair Chase represents the first Grade 1 contest in Britain this season. There are some excellent handicaps though at Haydock that I will be concentrating on, whilst the best bet of the day...
Ascot & Wetherby selections Saturday 1st November The jumps season really starts to take precedence now as we move into November and we have three really big meetings to get stuck into. Down Royal provides the first Grade 1 action of the winter, but I am concentrating on a...
Ascot selections Saturday 18th October The official end of the flat season in Britain sees a star studded cast of equine talent for an unusually fast ground Champions Day. I have selections from three races on the card and this looks a day to take on some of the...
Ascot selections Saturday 4th October This is not one of the big weekends of action in the UK, with some big action taken across the channel at Paris Longchamp. However today’s card at Ascot is always very competitive and I think there might be an additional angle to use...
Ascot & York selections Saturday 26th July The big midsummer open Group 1 for the middle distance horses, the King George is the highlight today. It looks a race that tactically is very predictable to forecast, and one I think could set up nicely for the veteran in the...
Royal Ascot selections Saturday 21st June All too quickly we come to the end of proceedings at Ascot and I think the final day card probably has the best balance of all five days now. I have selections for the two handicaps, plus two group races on the afternoon....
Royal Ascot selections Friday 20th June Fast ground continues to prevail at Ascot and on the straight track there seems a definite bias towards the stands side at present. Those factors have been taken into account for the three races under the focus today. Akkadian Thunder was placed for...
Royal Ascot selections Thursday 19th June A really varied card to enjoy for Thursday at Ascot. Of course the Gold Cup takes centre stage, but for betting purposes there are two really good handicaps that I am going to concentrate on. Ascot 3.05: Daiquiri Bay The King George Handicap...
Royal Ascot selections Wednesday 18th June After a terrific start to the Royal meeting we have another ultra competitive card for Wednesday. I am concentrating on three races, including one of the big betting contests, the Hunt Cup and the feature event, the Prince of Wales Stakes. We had...
Royal Ascot selections Tuesday 17th June The Royal meeting, arguably the highlight of the British racing calendar commences today at Ascot with the usual three Group 1 races giving us an electrifying start. Of those races, the opener looks of particular interest, so I have a selection from that...
