1.25 & 2.00 – British Champions Long Distance Cup & Sprint Stakes (Ascot)

This column tries to focus on horses at double-figure prices for some each-way value, but there’s a great opportunity to put together an each-way double in the first two races of the day.

I really can’t see either STRADIVARIUS   or THE TIN MAN  being out of the first three in their respective races.

The former has been ultra-consistent this term and will relish the forecast conditions and opposition, while the latter looks a value shout to win back-to-back Sprints if he can find a way of beating Harry Angel .

Both horses placing would produce a nice return and it’s not out of the question that both can win.

3.15 – Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (Ascot)

Ribchester   and Churchill   take up justified positions in the market, but I want to focus on their stablemates at bigger prices.

THUNDER SNOW   and LANCASTER BOMBER   have the credentials to place in this race, providing the ground doesn’t turn incredibly soft.

High winds should hopefully keep the track dry enough for both to run their races and on their best form I’d expect at least one of them to place at huge prices.

Back them both each-way and we’ll be in profit as long as at least one of them does so.

3.50 – Champion Stakes (Ascot)

I think the market for this race may have underestimated the ability of French raider RECOLETOS  .

Jockey Olivier Peslier has a superb record at the Berkshire track with a £69.21 level stakes profit had you placed £1 on all of his runners there, with half of them finishing in the first four.

This three-year-old has won Group 2 and 3 contests in his homeland with some cut in the ground and was within a length of the winner of the Group 1 Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly in June.

His price looks far too big, with a number of horses at the head of the market potentially off the boil after long seasons.

4.30 – Balmoral Handicap (Ascot)

WHITE LAKE   is a really interesting entry in the final race of the day.

A non-runner at Nottingham at the end of May, he hasn’t been seen on a racecourse since being well-beaten in the Hambleton Handicap at York.

He’s potentially well-handicapped back down to a Class 2 and looks just the type of horse that trainer Roger Varian has success with.

Varian is in great form and this horse fits the bill of recent winners of the race.