{"id":500664,"date":"2026-06-15T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500664\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T12:03:08","slug":"royal-ascot-best-bets-mark-howard-horses-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500664\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Ascot best bets: Mark Howard horses to follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our columnist returns with five horses on his Royal Ascot radar for next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/racing\/racecards\/2026-06-16\/royal-ascot\/racecard\/915250\/king-charles-iii-stakes-group-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KING CHARLES III STAKES<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/racing\/profiles\/horse\/1156974\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RAYEVKA<\/a> bids to become the first French trained winner since Chineur (won the same Group 3 at Longchamp beforehand) in 2005 and the first four year old filly since Habibti in 1984. A homebred daughter of Blue Point, she is rated 110 having won 3 of her 12 races. While she has come up short in her previous attempts in Group 1 events (63766), all five of those races came over six or six and a half furlongs. Three parts of a length third in the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup (6f : Good\/Firm) last summer, she was five and a half lengths sixth in the Group 1 Qipco British Champions Sprint (6f : Good) in October.<\/p>\n<p> Following two respectable runs in Meydan, including in the Group 1 Al Quoz Sprint in March, she successfully dropped back to the minimum trip in a Group 3 at Longchamp (Soft) last time. Mickael Barzalona\u2019s mount showed a blistering turn of speed to come from the rear to win going away by a length and three quarters. Unexposed over the trip (21), she will enjoy the frenetic early gallop and ought to be finishing strongly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our columnist returns with five horses on his Royal Ascot radar for next week. KING CHARLES III STAKES&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-500664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}