Europe’s best sprinter and King’s Stand Stakes staple Baattash is favoured to add a fourth Group 1 to his collection with the five-furlong specialist heading TAB’s market at $2.80 for one of the co-features on the opening day of this year’s Royal Ascot meeting.
The King’s Stand is one of three Group 1s on a card that kicks off with the G1 Queen Anne Stakes. Palace Pier is the shortest-priced favourite of the day at $1.40 with the main danger the topically-named Order Of Australia ($7.50) given the race is run the day after Australia’s Queen’s birthday honours list recipients were announced.
The St James’s Palace Stakes is the other Day 1 feature, while many Aussie racing fans are eagerly anticipating the lone Group 1 on Day 2 – the Prince of Wales’s Stakes – which sees last year’s Cox Plate runner-up Armory the $3.80 third elect behind superstar mare Love ($2.40) and last year’s winner Lord North ($3.20).
All five days of Royal Ascot 2021 will be broadcast on Sky Channel with the Queen Anne Stakes launching tonight’s proceedings at 11.30pm AEST.
| The Queen Anne Stakes | ||||
| $1.40
$7.50 $12 $15 $18 $19 $26 $34
$71 $101 |
Palace Pier
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| The Kings Stand Stakes | ||||
| $2.80
$4.80 $6.50 $9.00 $13 $16 $18 $21 $26 $31
$41 |
Battaash
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| St James’s Palace Stakes | ||||
| $4.60
$6.00 $7.00 $8.00
$10 $17 $21
$41 $101 |
Poetic Flare
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| The Prince of Wales’s Stakes | ||||
| $2.40
$3.20 $3.80 $13 $23
$41 |
Love
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