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Prince of Wales Stakes Tips

3.45 Prince of Wales Stakes (Class 1) (Group 1). 1m 2f


First run at Royal Ascot in 1862, this race is named after the son of Queen Victoria – later King Edward VII. Originally staged over 1m5f, the race often attracted horses that had participated in the Classics. There was no Prince of Wales’s Stakes from 1946 until 1968, a year before the current Prince of Wales’s investiture in 1969. In 2000 the race was upgraded to Group 1 status and restricted to 4 year olds and upwards.


Bart Cummins, the legendary Australian former trainer of Tattersall’s Gold Cup winner So You Think and who is a 12 times winning trainer of the Melbourne Gold Cup is so miffed that it was sold to Coolmore “behind my back” that he derided the horse’s performance in Ireland, despite beating Godolphin’s dual Gp 1 winner Campanologist by 4½ lengths. So You Think which has won no less than 5 Gp 1’s in Australia, is also favourite for the CoralEclipse, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe and the Melbourne Cup. At the gallops on Saturday So You Think drew 15 lengths clear of her workout companion. Ryan Moore will partner. Planteur 4/1, whose Gp 1 victory in the Prix-Ganay was franked when runner-up Sarafina won the Prix Corrida impressively at Saint-Cloud, is among So you Think’s opponents. Rewilding 10/1, last years Derby 3rd, who has not run since landing the Dubai Sheema Classic by three and a quarter lengths in March is shaping up well for the contest.

Main bet: So You Think 4/9 on to win. No: 5 on the racecard.