2024-04-10

Royal Ascot Day 2 Betting Tips

Royal Ascot is without doubt one of the most anticipated events on the British racing calendar, and it is of course about so much more than horse racing. While the races themselves are at the heart of the event, Ascot has always been about glamour, hospitality, and style, as well.

Fashion journalists are almost as eager as sports pundits to get a ticket, and there will always be a big interest in who is there, who they’re with, and what they’re wearing, as well as which horses they’re betting on.

Royal Ascot Day 2 is only the second day in a five-day event, and the novelty factor is still high. It includes some quite popular races, including the much-anticipated Prince of Wales’s Stakes.

Royal Ascot Day 2 — feature races

The feature race for Day 2 is the Prince of Wales’s Stakes. Other races that also take place on Royal Ascot Day 2 are:

Queen Mary Stakes Kensington Palace Fillies’ Handicap Duke of Cambridge Stakes Royal Hunt Cup Queen’s Vase Windsor Castle Stakes

Royal Ascot Day 2 - tips

One Royal Ascot Day 2 tip is to place a bet on the Prince of Wales’s Stakes as it’s generally the most prestigious race of the week. But that doesn’t mean you should ignore the other races, such as the Queen Mary Stakes and Duke of Cambridge Stakes.

When the first entries are declared into each of the races the ante-post market opens, and it may be beneficial to get involved at this stage. Alternatively, the live betting market opens around 48 hours before the race’s scheduled start time, after the final declarations are made official.

You can bet on a particular horse to win or use an each-way bet where you win as long as your horse either wins or places. Another available option is a forecast bet - for his, you need to predict the first and second-placed horses. A tricast bet, on the other hand, means you try and predict the first three places. Otherwise, an accumulator bet involves predicting the results of multiple races across the day. You can see the betting odds on offer for the Royal Ascot Day 2 races right here at LeoVegas.

Royal Ascot tips Day 2 Mary Stakes

The Queen Mary Stakes is a Group Two flat race that is run over five furlongs and exclusively open to two-year-old fillies. When picking which horses to place a bet on previous winners are a good starting point for your research.

In this event, four of the last 12 winners were either favourites or joint favourites in the run-up to the race, and eight of them were in the top three in the betting. It’s also worth noting that 10 of them had won on their last run before the Queen Mary Stakes.

Royal Ascot Day 2 tips: Kensington Palace Fillies’ Handicap

The Kensington Palace Fillies’ Handicap is a flat race that is run over eight furlongs. It is open to fillies and mares that are aged four or above. As this is a relatively new addition that has only been running for the last three years, there aren’t many statistics to analyse.

It is worth considering though, that none of the last three winners were favourites, or even placed in the top three in the betting. In fact, the 2022 winner, Rising Star, was placed 20th (out of 20 runners). Each winner had also only won one previous race that season.

Royal Ascot Day 2 tips: Duke of Cambridge Stakes

The Duke of Cambridge Stakes is another Group Two flat race run over eight furlongs and is open to fillies and mares of four years or older. It was previously named the Windsor Forest Stakes, but in 2013 it was renamed in honour of Prince William.

Of the last 12 winners, 11 have been four-year-olds, and only four were favourites or joint favourites, with seven of those winners placed in the top three in the betting at race start. While 11 of the last 12 winners had had at least one previous run that season, only three had claimed a win that season.

Royal Ascot tips Day 2: Prince of Wales’s Stakes

As mentioned before, Prince of Wales’s Stakes probably the most interesting for many bettors. It is a Group One flat race run over 10 furlongs, open to any horse over four years of age. All of the last 12 winners were aged four or five. Half of them had at least one previous win in a Group One race, and all of them had won at least one previous Group One, Two or Three race. Only three of the last 12 winners were favourites, but 10 of them were in the top three in the betting.

Royal Ascot Day 2 tips: Royal Hunt Cup

The Royal Hunt Cup is a flat race run over eight furlongs, open to any horse of three years or more. Eight of the last 12 winners were four-year-olds. Interestingly, not one of the last 12 winners was a favourite, and only four of them were in the top three in the betting. Of those winners, 10 had run at least once that season, four of them had achieved a win that season, and two of them had won on their last run before the Royal Hunt Cup.

Royal Ascot Day 2 tips: Queen’s Vase

The Queen’s Vase is a Group Two flat race run over 14 furlongs, open to three-year-olds only. Five of the last 12 winners were favourites, and 11 of them were in the top three in the betting. One thing to keep in mind is that over the last 12 events, none of the winners had ever won — or even run — at Ascot before, and only one had a previous win in a Group One, Two or Three race.

Royal Ascot tips Day 2: Windsor Castle Stakes

The Windsor Castle Stakes is a flat race run over five furlongs, open to two-year-olds only. Of the last 12 winners, three were favourites, and five were in the top three in the betting. Two of them had at least one previous run at Ascot, with just one of those having won before at Ascot. None of those winners had seen a previous win in a Group One, Two or Three race.

Royal Ascot Day 2 tips: our Ascot betting tips

Probably the most important Royal Ascot Day 2 betting tip is to study the form of the runners and keep the stats in mind when deciding which races to bet on, which horse to pick, and which bets to make. If you’re not much of a racing enthusiast and just want to have a flutter, you might want to keep things simple and stick with race winner or each-way bets. If you think you can pick multiple winners, an accumulator bet might be for you.

Royal Ascot Day 2 — FAQs

What are the feature races of Royal Ascot Day 2?

The only feature race of day two Royal Ascot is the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, however, there are six other races of interest on this day, including the Queen Mary Stakes and the Duke of Cambridge Stakes.