S.P. Read Esq: Royal Ascot Day Three

Our daily columnist and pundit S.P. Read Esq. looks ahead to Thursday’s third day of ROYAL ASCOT  and finds the best opportunities available on Star Spreads, the home of sports spread betting.

Highland Reel landed a nice winner for me when winning the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes  yesterday.

I was a buyer on the Star Spreads 50 index on the race and the profit on the column since 1 January now stands at 1,990 points !!!

It was pretty much ‘any price you like’ with me about Highland Reel inside the final furlong but the horse has guts and class in abundance and slugged it out well inside the closing stages to give Aidan O’Brien his first winner of the week.

A week might be a long time in politics but when it comes to racing festivals 24 hours is an eternity.

No winners from Aidan O’Brien (from nine runners) on the opening day and the doomsday merchants and nae-sayers are already piping up – it was the same with Willie Mullins at Cheltenham – a point picked up on by Ben Keith from Star Sports and John McCririck in their pre-race briefing from the betting ring below:

As the honourable gentlemen discuss, Order Of St George is the pivotal horse of the day for backers, layers and traders alike.

I’m a believer – despite the horse having a quirky enough CV to warrant layers pushing the boat out.

He was impressive when winning last year – that came on soft ground. But here’s my point – I think he is BETTER on quicker ground. Six of his eight career wins have come on ground GOOD or QUICKER.

He’s a class act bidding to follow in the hoove-prints of his incredible stablemate Yeats and whilst Big Orange has a good CV and loves the fast ground too – I’m strongly of the opinion that Group 2 is his level.

I’m a buyer at 35 on Order Of St George in the Gold Cup.

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PROFIT/LOSS SINCE JAN 1 2017: PROFIT 1990.00 points

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