The flat season is fully rolling now...

Epsom hit us last week... and Royal Ascot steams into action next week...

I'm now locked in Ascot analysis mode... pulling together my trends, stats, angles and notes... making sure I'm as prepared as possible for the five-days...

And I've got some strong Royal Ascot stats to share in this email...

Before I get onto those stats...

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NTF 2026 ROYAL ASCOT SERVICE

As always I'm opening a limited number of places on the full NTF service for those of you that want to make use of the detailed NTF Race Analysis Guides for next week's ROYAL ASCOT action...

I'll be covering all five days of the Royal meeting next week for those already signed up to the NTF Summer Service and you can now hook up to the full NTF Members Service and grab your own slice of the action...

👑 Join NTF here for Royal Ascot 2026 👑

📊 NTF does the hard data-digging... so you don't have to!

Now for those Royal Ascot stats... and I'm taking a bit of a delve into those races restriced to 2yo's...

And one trainer has a seriously tight grip on them...

🎩 AP O'BRIEN

No major surprises there... if I gave you one guess I'm sure that's who most of you would have landed on...

Next best on the list is Karl Burke with 6 winners (who I'll come to soon)… and Wesley Ward, also with 6... but no winners for Ward since 2020 and only 1 of his last 15 have placed... 

The stats are so strong for O'Brien... and his domination so powerful... that's it's well worth flagging them up here...

📊 Since 2011 there have been 90 races restricted to 2yo's at Royal Ascot... Aidan O'Brien has won 22 of them!

A whopping 24% of Royal Ascot 2yo races won by ONE solitary trainer...

The one and only Aidan O'Brien...

His overall stats are strong enough...

AP O'Brien | Royal Ascot | 2yo races

22/104 | 21% S/R | +£55.63 BFLSP - W&P 42/104 | 40% S/R

6% above exp

And, as always, those stats can be tightened up significantly by the addition of a few filters...

🎯 Tighter angle to follow...

AP O'Brien | Royal Ascot | 2yo races | RYAN MOORE riding | NO TT worn | Previously run over at least 5.5f | NOT out of a (GB) Dam

16/36 | 44% S/R | +£57.05 BFLSP - W&P 23/36 | 64% S/R

69% above exp

The last 20 qualifiers on that angle have returned a form line of...

31114221611414415191 (10/20, 5p)

...and I've got it plugged in for this year's meeting...

Any qualifiers will be highlighted in the NTF Royal Ascot guides...

There is, however, one other trainer worth highlighting in the 2yo races... and one who has started to really target these races since the 2020 meeting...

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🎩 KARL BURKE

📊 Overall stats since 2020...

K Burke | Royal Ascot | 2yo races

6/31 | 19% S/R | +£82.54 BFLSP - W&P 9/31 | 29% S/R

103% above exp

All 6 of those winners met the same profile...

🎯 Tighter angle to follow...

K Burke | Royal Ascot | 2yo races | horses with 0-1 career starts | WON LTO (or yet to run)

6/13 | 46% S/R | +£100.54 BFLSP - W&P 8/13 | 62% S/R

273% above exp

Both trainers will likely have had their eyes on the 2yo Royal Ascot pots from some way out... and I'll be factoring the above angles into my Royal Ascot analysis for NTF members...

Analysis you can gain access to by clicking the link below...

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>>>Join the NTF 2026 ROYAL ASCOT service here

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Cheers - Ben (NTF)

www.narrowingthefield.co.uk