Video from Racing Post. Bruce Millington is joined by Paul Kealy, David Jennings, and Paddy Power’s Tom Nugent for a look ahead to racing on ITV this weekend including action at York, Sandown and Chester. Plus a look ahead to Sunday’s action and Royal Ascot.

On the show:
– It’s not long until Royal Ascot and our team are in high spirits to build up their betting war chests this weekend with action at York, Sandown and Chester. The team have strong fancies for this weekend and give their best bets for the Royal Meeting.

– There wasn’t much separating Sir Michael Stoute’s Mekong and Mark Johnston’s Austrian School when behind to Dee Ex Bee in the Henry II Stakes at Sandown last time out. This time is a different matter and the team are divided on who could take the Grand Cup Stakes at York – who has got the strongest case?

– David O’Meara’s Leodis Dream shaped to go well at York last time but didn’t live up to expectations on the day. With Oisin Murphy jocked up in the Scurry Stakes, will the team give him another chance?

– The ITV cameras are also at Chester for a Class 2 handicap that looks a competitive affair. Are the team gravitating to Mark Johnston’s runner?

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Video from Racing Post. Mark Johnston has enjoyed numerous Royal Ascot winners with fillies and mares, not least with Queen Mary and Coronation Stakes winner Attraction. In 2019, he is lining up a team of classy fillies, which includes Main Edition, Threading and JM Jackson, about whom the yard has high hopes.

RPTV went to Kingsley Park on a wet Thursday before Ascot to get the latest on the leading ladies.
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Video from Racing Post. Video courtesy of Rebel Racing.

Richard Spencer, who won the Coventry Stakes in 2017 with his first ever Royal Ascot runner, believes that Rumble Inthejungle is in ‘A1 shape’ and can turn the form from last year’s Group 1 Middle Park Stakes around at Ascot on Friday.

Rumble Inthejungle was 3rd behind Ten Sovereigns and Jash last Autumn but hasn’t been seen in a race since then. The son of Bungle Inthejungle enjoyed a successful racecourse gallop at Newmarket last Saturday under Michael Hills, who reported him to be in fine fettle.

Spencer said: “Mike (Hills) is excited. He’s ridden him in all his work this year and each week he’s improved. The racecourse gallop was good, he worked well and we’re very happy with him. He was slow to come to hand after his winter break, so we took the view that it was easier to go straight there with a racecourse gallop than rush him. He’s in A1 shape and we’re looking forward to running him.”

Cheveley Park Stud purchased into Rumble Inthejungle following the colt’s taking win in the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes at the Qatar Goodwood Festival in August. He disappointed at Doncaster before finishing 4 lengths behind Friday’s favourite Ten Sovereigns in the Middle Park.

Commenting on the lack of run going into the race, Spencer said: He’s done very well from last year to this year. He won first time out last year at Salisbury, so I’m not too worried about not having a run going into Ascot. I know it is a big challenge for the team, but he looks amazing and the last two weeks he’s really thrived. The form he’s in now, in my mind, he can swing it around with those at the top of the market.

“For a sprinter, he is very laid back and very chilled at home. He comes alive when he gets in the gates and he knows what he’s there for. He’s very uncomplicated and the big plus with him is that he has a very high cruising speed. They’re not going to be hanging around in the Commonwealth, and I think it’s going to play into our hands.”

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Video from Racing Post. Join Thom Malone, David Jennings, Brendan Duke and Nicola McGeady as they preview the weekends racing actions from Sandown and York.

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