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Royal Ascot Day 5 Tips: Kevin Blake is very strong on Hukum in the Hardwicke

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Kevin has two tips for the final day of Royal Ascot

We've reached the final day of Royal Ascot and Kevin Blake likes a double-figure price each-way in the Chesham and a rock solid favourite in the Hardwicke Stakes...

  • Kevin Blake has two tips for Day 5 at Royal Ascot

  • Bold bid expected from 12/113.00 Snellen in Chesham

  • 13/82.63 Hukum will be very hard to beat in Hardwicke


This is it, the fifth and final day of Royal Ascot. We spend plenty of time building up to this most incredible of meetings and it comes and goes in what seems no time at all.

All being well, the final day will be made to count and we can land on a winner or two. Winners haven't been especially easy to find all week, but we'll keep swinging until the final bell in the hope of landing a knockout.

I've already put up Wellington in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes (15:40) as one of my five best bets of Royal Ascot piece, so I won't repeat that case.

Royal Ascot - 14:30: Back Snellen E/W

The first additional race of interest is the Chesham Stakes (14:30) and the one I like at a big price is the Gavin Cromwell-trained Snellen.

The daughter of Expert Eye impressed in a barrier trial at Naas a few weeks ago that has already worked out well and backed that up on the track by making a winning debut at Limerick just 10 days ago.

While the bare form might not look like much, Snellen shaped far better than the bare result, quickening to the lead only to veer left and make harder work of it than it should have.

She ultimately won very well and shaped as though there should be plenty more to come. This set of conditions should suit her well and a bold bid should be forthcoming.

Back Snellen E/W @ 12/113.00 in 14:30 at Royal Ascot

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Royal Ascot - 16:20: Back Hukum

The other race of interest is the Hardwicke Stakes (16:20) and the Owen Burrows-trained Hukum is the one that I like.

The son of Sea The Stars is forever destined to be remembered as the lesser of his full-brother Baaeed, but he is a very talented horse in his own right.

Indeed, he took perhaps one of his most notable scalps on his return from an injury-enforced absence of a year when taking the unbeaten record of the Derby winner Desert Crown in the Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown last time.

That victory came over a mile-and-a-quarter, a trip that would have been widely considered to be shorter than ideal for him, and one imagines that returning to a mile-and-a-half is very much going to be in his favour.

Last season saw him gain the biggest win of his career when hammering Pyledriver by 4¼ lengths in the Coronation Cup over this distance and if he can repeat something like that level of form he will prove to be very difficult to beat.

Back Hukum to Win @ 13/82.63 in 16:20 at Royal Ascot

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'Bet £10 get Free £10 Bet' Double Tips

Finally, the headline offer from Betfair every day of Royal Ascot is if you bet £10 on a horse racing multiple, you get a free £10 bet on a horse racing multiple, so I'll be looking to steer you in the direction of a payout if you wish to avail of that offer.

For my final double of the week I'll go for Wellington in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes (15:40) and Hukum in the Hardwicke Stakes (16:20).


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