Royal fancies OUR EXPERT'S ASCOT LOWDOWN

TRAINER Michael Bell can reproduce the amazing scenes of the 2017 Gold Cup when he sends out the giant YASHIN (4.20, Thursday) for Royal Ascot's feature race.

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Big Orange downed the brilliant Order of St George in a pulsating finish to that renewal eight years ago. At odds of 5-1 that win was hardly a wholesale surprise, yet a second win in the race for the Fitzroy House trainer would be.

If the son of Churchill can overhaul Illinois and Candelari in this lung-busting two-and-a-half mile event on the back of a Group Three win, the bookies would be dancing up Ascot High Street.

That recent win in the Sagaro Stakes was only his second start at two miles but the six-year-old raced right through the line to beat good yardstick Coltrane by a length, shaping as though this extra four furlongs would be right up his street.