Newsboy marks you card for every race at Royal Ascot and predicts a 1-2-3 for the fixture which opens on Tuesday with seven highly competitive races
FACTEUR CHEVAL is fancied to give France a fourth victory in Royal Ascot ’s curtain-raiser since the turn of the millennium.
Once asked for his effort, he produced a willing response to beat Japanese challenger Namur by a short head, and a reproduction of that effort - never mind an improvement from it - puts Facteur Cheval firmly in the mix. A stack of progress can be expected from this promising youngster’s first to second start, and Cowardofthecounty has strong claims of giving his rider the first Royal Ascot triumph of his going-places career.
A Group 1 triumph looked a fair way off when my selection returned with an eighth of 11 behind Blind Beggar in a big-money handicap at Bath in April. Notable Speech doubled up at the Sunbury venue the following month before racking up the hat-trick there in April. Although the runner-up has since captured the Irish 2,000 Guineas at the Curragh, Notable Speech should confirm the Newmarket form.
The handicapper hasn’t taken that performance lying down, and Highland Reel’s son competes from a 10lb higher rating of 95 this afternoon.
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