Royal Ascot Day Two Tips: Trio Of Wednesday Picks

Royal Ascot 2025 is now underway and after a packed Tuesday of top class racing, Wednesday has a card to match up! Billy Grimshaw started Royal Ascot 2025 like a house on fire with 25/1 winner Docklands in the Queen Anne, and has three he thinks are worth backing, with one at a very big price indeed...

14:30 Royal Ascot - Queen Mary Stakes

This is a race that has thrown up shocks over the years in terms of the winning SP, but with two year old fillies who have done little on track so far that is no surprise. Some will have come on leaps and bounds from their last outing, while others will have looked stars but already be on the wane. Despite the trappy nature of the race, there is a filly here I am fairly sweet on and she has C&D form which can be crucial here, albeit usually in races for older horses. SOCIETY KISS was deeply impressive both on the eye and on the clock when winning here last month and she looks to be a proper speedball, which is what we'll need here over the minimum trip.

It was only a maiden but with the time checking out and Society Kiss proving she loved the quick surface, combined with the fact a horse she comfortably dispatched of has come out and won next time out, means she rates a knocking each-way bet to kick us off. Of course, in a race like this there's potential for huge improvement from anything in the field, from market leaders to the rank outsiders, but it'll be an above average renewal if Society Kiss runs the same race as she did last time here and finishes out of the extended four places the bookies are kindly giving us.

I am always nervous when a Ballydoyle two year old ridden by Ryan Moore is prominent in the market and I am not on the bandwagon, and that is the case with True Love here the second favourite. She fluffed her lines a touch last time out but that was over six and she looks one who'll enjoy this drop back in trip. Before that she placed in a decent looking listed race with form working out all over the place

15:40 Royal Ascot - Duke Of Cambridge Stakes

Another fillies and mares' only race is the next that's piqued my interest and while I do agree with the odds compilers that Cinderella's Dream, ELMALKA looks massive at 9/1 for an each-way play. The 2024 1000 Guineas winner, a surprise result to most, did not win again last season and indeed has not tasted glory since her Classic success, but that's not to say she's been running poorly. On her reappearance this year she was well beaten by Cinderella's Dream at Newmarket but that was over nine furlongs and this drop to seven, albeit at a stiff track like Ascot, should play into her hands.

She ran well for fourth in last season's Coronation Stakes in what looked an above average renewal of the race and a repeat of that performance would see her in the mix. She lost to Cinderella's Dream off levels last time too and here gets 3lbs, which will help, and a line can be put through her French exertion as the ground wasn't rattling quick enough. It certainly will be here with the dry ground and spectacular forecast!

Fallen Angel is a bona fide front runner and second favourite and she of course has a big chance of a runaway success, but what she could do is really set things up for closers indeed like the favourite or our pick Elmalka, who likes to come with one rattling late challenge. I hope Silvestre De Sousa can hold his nerve and keep her back while the action ensues in front, because if she's at her best she has a right chance for Roger Varian in my eyes.

16:20 Royal Ascot - Prince Of Wales's Stakes

As I pen this piece Ryan Moore and Aidan O'Brien have just got themselves on the board in emphatic style at Royal Ascot 2025 in the Coventry and I'd make it a short price they have plenty more winners before this race, the feature on Day 2, comes around. Los Angeles will be a warm order regardless of what happens beforehand as he is as straightforward as the day is long, with the heart of a lion and seemingly infinite stomach for a battle. He is never going to be a superstar, but seems a master at doing just enough and with the king of frontrunning rides Moore on his back this will be a tough nut to crack should he get the lead as we expect.

If there is a superstar in here who will be able to outshine the hot favourite, I think it comes in the shape of filly SEE THE FIRE who looked reborn on seasonal debut at York when laughing at her rivals to scorch clear by 12 lengths for Balding and Murphy. It was a fillies only race that day, the Group 2 Middleton, and this will be a hell of a lot tougher but she could hardly have done more and with Balding's record with this type of horse in their four year old season, as well as the quick ground which we know this Sea The Stars filly relishes, I would be in no rush to lay her at anything north of 3/1. 5/1 is a brilliant price and will see many back her each-way, but I am going for all the marbles win only.

For all Anmaat won the Champion Stakes here well at the end of last season, that was on very different ground and I think Los Angeles has his number judging by their clash at the Curragh last time out. I actually don't think Continuous should be quite as big a price as he is, but it seems he will be the favourite's pacemaker so perhaps that's factored in. He's a good horse in his own right though, and if they give him too much rope he could well nab some place money. I hope the filly can once again show those electric gears we saw on the Knavesmire however and leave everything in her wake.