Royal Ascot Day 3

Royal Ascot has proved to be a decent week so far with profits made on both days. I was looking to back The Fugue today but with the last nights and this mornings rain I’m giving that race a miss. Instead I will concerntrate on just the one race today.

Gold Cup

3:45

Having gone through the form of this race the only conclusion that I can come to is that FAME AND GLORY has to be backed. He won this race last year beating Opinion Poll by 3 lengths, he then went to Champions Day and followed that up handing out a beating to Opinion Poll as well as Colour Vision. It's a telling sign that Frankie Dettori has chosen to ride Colour Vision, which shows that he is open to improvement and looked well on seasonal rapperance. Last time the two met he was beaten by almost 2 lenghts recieving 7lbs, he now recieves 2lbs which I don't think will be enough to turn that form round.

He was impressive on his reappearance this season when handing 7lbs and upwards all round. Aiden O’Brien won this in 5 of the last 6 years; his defeat in that time was in 2010 when his Age Of Aquarius went down by a neck to Rite Of Passage.  Aiden seems to have the ability to keep these older horses sweet. With 14 wins from 22 starts Fame And Glory is worth 2 points of my money to win at 2.00.