Four Royal Ascot 2025 Tuesday top tips at best odds | Racing | Sport
Roar home ROSALLION (2.30) to start five days of top class racing action in the Group One Queen Anne Stakes.
Richard Hannon’s charge is 2-2 at Ascot, oozing class as a juvenile and winning last year’s St James’s Palace at this prestigious fixture.
Briefly caught in a pocket, the miler sired by Blue Point found a gap to pick up Henry Longfellow with the winning post in sight.
Sidelined in the second-half of the season, Rosallion flattened out in the closing stages of the Lockinge at Newbury in May, when he finished behind Lead Artist and Dancing Gemini.
The front two had the benefit of a run and back at a track he loves, Hannon’s horse is fancied to gain his revenge under Sean Levey.
Six-figure buy AMERICAN GULF (3.05) can remain unbeaten in the Coventry Stakes for Paul Cole and his training partner son Oliver.
Royal Scotsman carried Fitri Hay’s silks into third three years ago and their juveniles have collectively performed well here.
Oisin Murphy sticks with the Ardad colt after introducing him to the sport at Windsor, a performance backed up by time – and his mount gets the vote ahead of fellow impressive newcomer Postmodern and under the radar Rock On Thunder.
Supplemented at a cost of £46,000, 33-1 shot PRIME ART (3.40) has to finish third or better in the Group One King Charles III Stakes to put the money back in the bank.
Only running for the second time between breaks of 293 and 315 days, Churchill’s well-bred daughter was still capable of making a big mid-race move when in need of the outing at Haydock.
If significantly sharper, she could find heaps of improvement as such a lightly-raced filly, which would make her one of the potential surprise packages in a field which includes last year’s winner Asfoora and reliable older sprinter Regional.
Prime Art has a double-figure draw to work with and that appears to be another positive, along with a stiff five furlongs as she is a Group Three winner over six.
In the Ascot Stakes, all eyes will be on Reaching High, the first horse saddled by Willie Mullins to carrying the famous royal silks of King Charles.
But there’s any number of interesting alternatives, including MANXMAN (5.00), a horse on an upward curve for Simon and Ed Crisford.
He won four on the bounce when coming up through the ranks and was awarded the 2024 Cesarewitch after the disqualification of first past the post Alphonse Le Grande.
A bit unlucky not to take the prize on merit, having won his race on the far side, no trip seems too far for Manxman who has plenty of enthusiasm for the racing game in his regular visor.
