Royal Ascot 2024 Day Two: The Panel’s Selections And Betting Tips For Wednesday
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- Donn McClean's Angle For The Big Race On Wednesday
- Tanya Stevenson's Tips For The Duke Of Cambridge Stakes & Royal Hunt Cup
- The Panel Tips: Three Selections for Wednesday At Royal Ascot
For today's horse racing tips, our knowledgeable tipsters on The Panel, stacked with experts from Gambling.com, focus their attention on Day Two of the Royal Ascot Festival which features tips and analysis from Donn McClean and Tanya Stevenson.
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Donn McClean's Angle
Rogue Millennium Big Player For Duke of Cambridgeshire (15:45)
Ocean Jewel’s chance of winning the Duke of Cambridgeshire Stakes at Royal Ascot on Wednesday may have been under-rated by the market.
Winner of her maiden over five furlongs as a juvenile, Willie McCreery’s filly progressed nicely last season as a three-year-old, putting up the her best performance of the year at Leopardstown in July when she stepped up to seven furlongs for the first time and landed the Group 3 Ballycorus Stakes.
She was beaten in each of her two subsequent runs last season, but there was mitigation for both. The first of those was over six furlongs, her first run back after a short break, and it just wasn’t her running.
The second was in the Group 1 Matron Stakes at Leopardstown on Irish Champions’ Weekend, stepped up in trip to a mile for the first time and stepped up in grade into Group 1 company for the first time.
She was only eighth in the end, eight and a half lengths behind the winner Tahiyra and just over seven lengths behind the runner-up Rogue Millennium, but she was checked at a crucial stage of the race, just outside the furlong marker as she was following Rogue Millennium through.
You suspected that you could allow her that run, and now you know that you can, after her debut this season, when she put up the best performance of her life in winning the Group 2 Lanwades Stud Stakes at The Curragh on Irish Guineas weekend.
A half-sister to 1000 Guineas winner Mother Earth, she travelled like the most likely winner from a fair way out that day.
She made good ground on the near side from the two-furlong marker, and she quickened up smartly to set up a race-winning advantage before keeping on well all the way to the line.
She may not have received due credit for that victory. A lot of the post-race attention appeared to be focussed on Rogue Millennium who, admittedly, didn’t have a whole lot of racing room on the far side through the final furlong.
That said, watching the race again in dispassionate post-race-analysis mode, it is difficult to argue that the best horse in the race didn’t win it.
Rogue Millennium is a big player in Wednesday's race. She won the race last year when she was with Tom Clover, so she can obviously operate over the course and distance.
Also, sold for 1.65 million guineas at Tattersalls’ December Sale, she was having her first run for Joseph O’Brien in the Lanwades Stud Stakes at The Curragh.
It would be surprising if her new trainer had not had Wednesday’s race as her early-season target for a little while, so there is every chance that she will come on appreciably for her run at The Curragh.
That said, the disparity between Rogue Millennium’s odds and Ocean Jewel’s odds may be greater than it should be.
Ocean Jewel is a progressive filly who has pace and who stays a mile well and who is potentially top-class. She could run a big race.
Tanya Stevenson's Tip For The 15:45 At Royal Ascot - Breege (E/W)
Breege is a filly with an attitude who throughout her 13-race career has never shied away from getting stuck in.
Ten of those 13 have been in Stakes races, including four Group 3s and two Group 1s. In 2022 on very soft ground that would be less than ideal she was fifth to Blue Rose Cen in the Prix Marcel Boussac.
She went on to be seventh in last year’s Irish 1000 Guineas and then ran a brilliant second at big odds in the Sandringham Stakes behind Coppice. Coppice now runs in Grade 1s in America trained by Chad Brown.
Breege needs to be produced at the right time and encouraged to show her best side.
Jason Hart knows the secret as shown by the win in the Princess Elizabeth Stakes at Epsom over a couple of hundred yards further than today.
She wandered about in a little in front with the Epsom cambers no helping. To assist with concentration today the cheekpieces are applied.
Alongside her two wins are seven additional places so despite her toying with the opposition there is a determination.
She is a character and a very good one, she is usually produced late and whoever is leading in the final furlong will be worried about Breege’s proximity
Tanya Stevenson's Tip for the 14:45 At Royal Ascot - Breege (Each Way)
Tanya Stevenson's Tip For The 17:05 At Royal Ascot - Ropey Guest (E/W)
Could it be 22nd time lucky?
Ropey Guest has run the straight at Ascot so many times he probably knows it better than the clerk of the course,
Chris Stickels. He could also match a few hard luck stories with the best of them.
He arrives at his sixth Royal Ascot in probably the best form of his proceeding years and is once again in amongst friends with the likes of Bless Him and The Gatekeeper, to name two.
In 2022 he finished runner-up to Inver Park in the Buckingham Palace Stakes but that was over seven furlongs.
I think a mile or a little further is better for him and the stats say the same. He has run ten times for two wins, a second and two thirds.
He is okay on any ground from Good To Firm to Good To Soft. And he has his best friend on board Tom Queally who has ridden him 33 times to four wins, four seconds and four thirds.
He would be fine ploughing a lone furrow and with some fair place terms around he could very well sneak one or find that winners enclosure.
Tanya Stevenson's Tip for the 17:05 At Royal Ascot - Ropey Guest (Each Way)
14:30 Ascot: The Panel Selection - Make Haste
Blue Point tore up the record books for first-season sires last year with the most Group and stakes winning juveniles and was the first since Sadlers Wells to sire two Group 1 winners.
His stock continues to rise after Rosallion’s victory yesterday and Make Haste can add to the lustre by taking this 2yo Group 2.
The filly was described by paddock watchers as looking certain to improve both mentally and physically for the run but she sprinted clear in the final furlong to win by over three lengths.
She could be special and can give Ireland-based Brazilian trainer Diego Dias his first Ascot winner.
15:45 Ascot: The Panel Selection - Rogue Millenium
Rogue Millenium won this race last year for Tom Clover and has since transferred to Joseph O’Brien.
Her seasonal debut went wrong as she got stuck on the rail and finished a full-of-running third behind Ocean Jewel who reopposes under a 3lb penalty.
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O’Brien is a master at preparing a horse for its big day, most recently nearly bagging the 1000 Guineas with Porta Fortuna, and Rogue Millenium can reverse form with Ocean Jewel and take this Group 2 for the second time.
17:05 Ascot: The Panel Selection - Besthani & Wild Tiger
The Royal Hunt Cup is a fantastic spectacle as thirty runners contest the annual cavalry charge over the straight mile. The draw can be a factor and it may be wise to select one from each side of the course.
Beshtani was three from six in France and ran a blinder on his British debut at Epsom, losing on the nod to Two Tempting.
The latter was raised 5lbs for the win and proceeded to bag a valuable £50,000 handicap at Sandown last weekend and is now 7lb higher than at Epsom.
Beshtani’s mark remains the same and with improvement likely on this second run he looks well handicapped to give James Doyle and new boys Wathnan Racing an Ascot winner.
Wild Tiger has won his last two races over 7f this season with the minimum of fuss and now stepping up to mile seems a certainty to improve again.
A son of Frankel out of a mile-winning mare he has the assistance of Oisin Murphy and looks guaranteed to give a good account for Saeed Bin Suroor who has won this race before.
Suggested Staking Plan For The Panel Selections
- 14:30 Royal Ascot 1pt WIN: Make Haste
- 15:45 Royal Ascot 1pt WIN: Rogue Millenium
- 17:05 Royal Ascot 1pt WIN: Besthani
- 17:05 Royal Ascot 1pt WIN: Wild Tiger
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