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Newsboy’s horseracing tips and 1-2-3 for every race at Royal Ascot on Wednesday

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Newsboy’s horseracing tips and 1-2-3 for every race at Royal Ascot on Wednesday

Newsboy marks you card for every race at Royal Ascot and predicts a 1-2-3 for the fixture on Wednesday from seven highly competitive races

Newsboy marks your card for Royal Ascot(Getty Images for Ascot Racecourse)

2.05 Queen Mary Stakes

LEOVANNI did enough on her debut at Nottingham two weeks to suggest she can give her trainer Karl Burke, successful with Dramatised two years ago, a second Queen Mary Stakes triumph.
The daughter of Kodi Bear had evidently been showing up well in the run-up to her racecourse bow – she went off a well-backed 6-4 favourite in a field of 11 for a five-furlong fillies’ maiden.
And she justified the support in good style, tracking the pace under James Doyle before hitting the front on the run to the final quarter mile, readily accounting for Sunshine Soul by two and a quarter lengths.




It’s hard to be adamant about the value of that form but the Wathnan Racing-owned Leovanni clearly has her fair share of ability – and can only progress from her first to second outing.
Miss Rascal looks most promising and is feared most, ahead of Truly Enchanting and American raider Ultima Grace .

NEWSBOY’S 1-2-3: 1 LEOVANNI, 2 MISS RASCAL, 3 TRULY ENCHANTING

3.05 Queen’s Vase

BIRDMAN has impressed in his two outings so far and gets the vote to take his career tally to 3-3.
The Jessica Harrington-saddled son of Free Eagle – dam Carol was a well-related, one-time winner for Ed Dunlop – didn’t race at two and had already been gelded by the time he made his racecourse debut in a mile-and-a-half- maiden at Cork on April 26.
The market took the evident bumps in the road into account – Birdman went off at 8-1, but overcame inexperience to beat Himalayan Heights by two and a quarter lengths, with Highbury back in third.
Harrington then raised Birdman’s sights to Listed level for the four-runner Yeats Stakes over a mile and five at Navan last month, and Shane Foley’s mount took a step forward to account for Bellezza by a length and a quarter.
An additional furlong today will be of benefit and Birdman has any amount of untapped potential to draw upon as he faces his toughest assignment yet.
Given Aidan O’Brien’s record in the race, it’s no surprise to see Illinois and Highbury towards the head of the market, while Mina Rashid isn’t without appeal at bigger odds.

NEWSBOY’S 1-2-3: 1 BIRDMAN, 2 ILLINOIS, 3 MINA RASHID

Rogue Millennium: won the Duke of Cambridge Stakes last year(PA)

3.45 Duke of Cambridge Stakes

ROGUE MILLENNIUM gets the vote to mount a successful defence of her crown.
Dubawi’s daughter was saddled by Tom Clover when beating Random Harvest by a neck for the Group 2 prize 12 months ago, going on to finish second in the top-level Matron Stakes at Leopardstown in September.
Rogue Millennium was sent to the sales in December and went under the hammer for 1,650,000 guineas before crossing the Irish Sea to join Joseph O’Brien.
The five-year-old started out for her new stable in the Group 2 Lanwades Stud Stakes on the Curragh’s Irish 1,000 Guineas undercard.
Confidence was high – Rogue Millennium led the betting at even money, but Dylan Browne McMonagle found his path blocked persistently through the penultimate furlong.
Once finding clear water, Rogue Millennium rattled home into third behind Ocean Jewel and, granted luck in running, she’s a massive player.
Laurel evidently isn’t an easy horse to get to the races but has Group 1 form on her CV and warrants respect, as do with Breege and Doom.

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