It Pays To Pick A Good Trainer At Royal Ascot This Summer

There are two ways of looking at Royal Ascot racecourse since its upgrade a couple years ago. The racecourse executive will tell you it's the fairest track in the country, a racecourse with no bias that any horse can win on. Punters will say it's impossible, perhaps too fair, because at the Royal Ascot meeting 12 months ago the average starting price of the winners of the nine handicap races was over 20/1.

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Royal Ascot betting highly cometitive

Quite simply, Royal Ascot is the most competitive horse race betting event of the flat-season and there is no way of knowing which side of the track will come out on top from race to race and so any analysis of the draw is virtually worthless. That makes life very difficult when it comes to sorting out potential winners of the two big Royal Ascot betting races, the Royal Hunt Cup and the Wokingham.

Having said that, there are some major clues to help us solve these two 30-runner handicaps at the Royal Ascot racecourse and the most important of them is without doubt trainer form. There are certain trainers that target these two races from the start of the season and know precisely what type of horse it takes to win them.

Royal Ascot meeting and the Hunt Cup

The two men that stand out when it comes to the Hunt Cup are John Gosden and James Fanshawe. The latter has won the race twice and saddled a runner-up in the last four renewals of the race when it has been run at the Royal Ascot meeting, while Gosden won it last year and was touched off by Fanshawe the year before.

At this stage in the Royal Ascot betting, it isn't clear which horse Gosden is aiming at the race, but the vibes from Newmarket are that Fanshawe is lining up Artmino, who ran very well in a similar contest at the Royal Ascot meeting a year ago.