Oli Bell has a Yankee for today's action at Royal Ascot
Oli Bell has a Yankee for today's action at Royal Ascot

Oli Bell best bets for Royal Ascot on Friday


Oli Bell is backing The Queen to enjoy a Friday winner at Royal Ascot - check out his latest Yankee suggestion.

3.05 Royal Ascot - Elector

A winner for the Queen at Royal Ascot is something special and there looks a reasonable possibility with Sir Michael Stoute's Elector in the King Edward VII.

The colt stepped up on his comeback run when second at Nottingham over 10 furlongs last month and it's significant his sole success at two came at Ascot.

He's bred for this mile and a half trip and looks a typical Stoute slow-burner.

3.40 Royal Ascot - Sands Of Mali

Richard Fahey has been telling everyone willing to listen that Sands Of Mali is a Group One horse and I agree that the horse was possibly value for a bit more than the bare margin at Haydock on his return to the UK.

It looks a wide-open Commonwealth Cup but this horse has the highest official rating in the field and reports from the camp suggest he's come on again. I'm very keen on his chances.

4.20 Royal Ascot - Alpha Centauri

Jessica Harrington has become on the best dual-purpose trainers around and she can claim a first Royal Ascot victory with the filly who ran so well (beaten a neck in the Albany) as a two-year-old here last summer.

Alpha Centauri developed into a top-class three-year-old, winning the Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh last month, and it's pretty clear that rattling fast ground is right up her street.

5.35 Royal Ascot - Count Calabash

This is anything but a unique suggestion but that's the joy of Royal Ascot - you get to back seriously good, progressive horses at rewarding prices, no matter how popular they are, and Count Calabash is definitely on a steep upward curve.

His win over Koeman here last month screamed 'Royal Ascot' to me and in truth a 6lb rise in the ratings looks perfectly fair. Eve Johnson Houghton started the week with a bang and looks set to round off Friday's card in a similar manner.

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