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Greg Wood
Day 4 of Royal Ascot 2026 and it’s going to beryllium a scorcher, pinch highest temperatures of up to 28C forecast for this afternoon. A time for sunscreen, shades and plentifulness of hydration breaks betwixt races, and besides a chance for nan punters to property location nan advantage aft nan characteristic events connected nan first 3 days were won by a heavily-backed favourite.
Scandinavia (11-8), successful yesterday’s Gold Cup, followed up nan victories of Bow Echo (5-6) and Ombudsman (11-10) connected Tuesday and Wednesday, and location are 3 short-priced favourites successful nan first 4 races coming that multiply retired to an 8-1 treble.
The punters will look to Aidan O’Brien’s Sun Goddess (5-4) to get them disconnected to a storming commencement successful nan Albany Stakes astatine 2.30, and move connected to Venetian Sun (6-4) successful nan Commonwealth Cup astatine 3.05, earlier getting stuck into Precise (4-6) successful nan Coronation Stakes.
The going astatine Ascot remains good-to-firm aft different 5mm of h2o was applied overnight, and an absorbing constituent from nan GoingStick readings is that location is an expanding disparity betwixt nan 2 sides of nan way connected nan consecutive course.
The latest reference connected nan stands’ broadside – wherever nan high-numbered stalls person been ascendant successful astir of nan straight-track races this week – is 8.3, while nan acold broadside is 8.9. Given that nan stands’ obstruction has already held sway connected nan first 3 days, it is wholly imaginable that astir aliases each of nan runners will travel down nan adjacent obstruction this afternoon. The 25-runner Albany will springiness an early indication.
Picks for nan 7 races connected today’s paper are here, and you tin travel each nan action arsenic it happens present connected nan blog from early to late.
