...it favoured the favourites...

How did Royal Ascot go for you?

I'm not going to lie... it wasn't my best year... too many of mine winning on their side of the draw but finding 1 or 2 (or more!) too good for them on the other side of the draw...

It was also a little bit of a favourites benefit this year... and those years (at the big meetings) are the ones where I'm most likely to have a bit of a rougher week...

Part and parcel of the game though... I've been doing this long enough now that it's all just part of the rollercoaster... 🎢

Back to those favourites though...

I had a look at the past ten Royal Ascot's (excluding this year's renewal) to see what the average strike-rate of favs/joints favs at the meeting was...

These were the figures...

🏇 Favs/Joint Favs at the last 10 Royal Ascot's (2015 - 2024)

📊 92/349 | 26% S/R | -£15.83 - 11% below expectation

Then I fired up the stats for this year...

🏇 Favs/Joint Favs at this year's Royal Ascot (2025)

📊 14/36 | 39% S/R | +£13.97 - 24% ABOVE expectation

Which backs up my initial statement of this year's meeting 'favouring the favourites'...

I spent the early part of this week picking through this year's Royal Ascot results and pulling together my in-depth notes report for full NTF Members...

That was posted to members yesterday and you can grab a copy by clicking the following button...

Whilst pulling that guide together I found an old(ish) angle I had plugged into a database, that looked at profiting from BEATEN favs from Royal Ascot on their next start...

This is that angle...

🎯 Beaten Favs/Joint Favs at Royal Ascot (beaten <10L) | Running in a C1 or C2 race next time out | Aged 3yo+ | DSLR 28-60

Which has returned (since 2015)...

📊 21/46 | 46% S/R | +£78.73 BFLSP - W&P 28/46 | 61% S/R

67% above exp

...which is a neat little angle to keep on the radar for the next few weeks...

There's similar angles and stats dotted throughout the Royal Ascot Notes guide that I sent out to NTF Members yesterday... so if you want more of the above then go check out the guide HERE>>>

...or click the image below 👇

Cheers - Ben (NTF)

www.narrowingthefield.co.uk

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