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Will Smith Tips

West Wind Blows

Hardwicke Stakes - 3.05 Royal Ascot

** 'Top 5 Finish'

3/1

Andab

Jersey Stakes - 4.10 Royal Ascot

** 'Top 5 Finish'

11/5

Binhareer

Wokingham Stakes - 5.00 Royal Ascot

** EW 6 places 1/5

9/2

Completely Random

Wokingham Stakes - 5.00 Royal Ascot

** EW 6 places 1/5

12/1

Dubai Bling

Wokingham Stakes - 5.00 Royal Ascot

* EW 6 places 1/5

28/1

Lucky 15

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5/2

It’s not all about finding winners to make the game pay, and today’s recommendations for WhichBookie feature two options whereby delving into the extended ‘place’ or ‘top finish’ markets that almost all bookmakers offer on each race.

In the Hardwicke Stakes at 3.05 at Royal Ascot, on a final day of what’s been an enthralling meeting as ever, many will pour over the form trying to find out which one of this very classy bunch will prevail, but what looks clear to me is that whoever wins, West Wind Blows won’t be far behind.

That has been the case in every one of his 1m4f starts since coming back from a 2-year break, and he has been within a length of one of the world’s best 1m2f-1m4f horses Calandagan and today’s 5/2 favourite Kalpana in a globetrotting start to the year.

The best price to avail yourselves of is the 3/1 about West Wind Blows as a 2-star ** bet with Bet365 in their ’Top 5 Finish’ market, and he’d be a bet with any firm in a similar vein at anything down to the 13/8 or 7/4 mark.

In the Jersey Stakes at 4.20, there is a very similar theme that could be applied as the likes of Saber Strike and Catullus look classy and progressive, but at 11/5 with Bet365 once again in their ‘Top 5 Finish’ market, Andab is worth a 2-star ** bet.

In a first-time visor and representing the ever-brilliant Joseph O’Brien and Dylan Browne McMonagle combination, Andab was an excellent 4^th in last year’s Coventry Stakes and a straight 7f could suit him well. Plus, his recent form with the likes of Causeway and Talk Of New York looks strong.

In the Wokingham Stakes at 5.00, the obvious option is a 2-star ** recommendation at 9/2 each-way with Unibet for 6 places on Binhareer who looks a Group-class sprinter in-waiting and Tom Marquand has been deadly this week from high(ish) draws on the straight track.

However, you should very much also keep last year’s 5^th on-side in the shape of a 1-star * bet on Completely Random at 12/1 each-way with William Hill for 6 places. Last year’s renewal favoured front-runners given there was a strong tailwind, and of the hold-up performers it was only More Thunder and Completely Random who played a hand.

His prep run for this was better than it looked in the Victoria Cup, and with Ryan Moore (2 from 2 on him) in the saddle, we can expect him to have every chance. If there was a 3^rd dart to have it would be the 1-star * 28/1 each-way with William Hill for 6 places about the unlucky-in-running last time out Chester runner-up Dubai Bling.

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Jan Brueghel

3.05 Ascot

EW 3 places 1/5

5/1

Lake Forest

3.40 Ascot

EW 4 places 1/5

10/1

Princling

5.35 Ascot

EW 5 places 1/5

15/2

3.05 Ascot – Hardwicke Stakes (Group 2) – 1m4f

This Group 2 race doesn’t carry either Group 1 or Group 2 winners’ penalties and as a result produces fields (like we have here) that are comfortably Group 1 standard.

We have a Derby winner, multiple Royal Ascot winners and throw in a Coronation winner, a King George winner and a multiple Fillies’ and Mares’ winner and you’ve got the potential for one of the races of the week.

Strong form lines through Calandagan pitch nothing between Kalpana and Jan Brueghel although only the former is an Ascot winner and a dual Ascot winner at that. Goliath was 4^th in the Prix De Chantilly before a good second in this race two years ago. He’s coming here off the back of a win in the same prep race and running as well as ever on figures.

All that said, I think Kalpana is the rightful favourite but a defences of her Fillies’ and Mares’ Crown and an attempt a third Champions Day win is the big aim for the season. It’s a slight redemption mission for Jan Brueghel following a disappointment at Epsom but if you can draw a line through that, and his effort at this course before in cheek-pieces when going off too fast he looks the logical alternative.

JAN BRUEGHEL – 1 STAR EW @ 5/1 (3 places 1/5)

3.40 Ascot – Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes (Group 1) – 6f

A strong international presence in this race with Joliestar, last year’s runner up Satono Reve and Overpass as the top three in the betting.

It’s the next in the betting that I’m siding with and I’d hoped this would be the contest they opted for although seeing the 50/1 winner of the Queen Anne (where he was 5^th last year) might have felt that could have worked too.

Still this horse has looked like 7 furlongs is his best trip and his figures in the main back that up however he hasn’t been back down to this trip since early in his 3-year-old days but managed to show Group 1 level form even back then. His last start as a 3-year-old was winning in Rosehill and taking the scalp of last years winner Lazzat and while winless as a 4-year-old, he’s since been gelded and produced a career best effort on his first start this season. That was only a listed race but he was incredibly impressive and often we talk about the low standard set in the sprinting division and I think he tops everything on these shores, including Ireland.

This is a stiff track, and while he’s been ridden in the rear over further, he was midfield on that comeback run and there shouldn’t be many who are finishing faster than him so providing he can get to the front at some point before the line, he won’t be for catching and makes huge EW appeal to me

LAKE FOREST – 1 STAR EW @ 10/1 (4 places 1/5)

5.35 Ascot – Golden Gates Stakes (Handicap) – 1m2f

PRINCLING was well backed on handicap debut in the Silver Bowl which was moved to Carlisle and he while he was beaten, he stayed on strongly enough to suggest there could be even more to come from him at this trip. The depth of that races form at a mile since is questionable but I can make him an exception to that given he’s going out in trip and has a decent draw to work from.

PRINCLING – 1 STAR EW @ 15/2 (5 places 1/5)

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