5 Royal Ascot Timeform tips as experts deliver verdict for prestigious flat meeting festival

The five-day Royal Ascot festival is one of the highlights of the British racing calendar with King Charles III set to attend four days of the festival at the Berkshire course, where glitz and glamour is the order of the day at the prestigious British sporting event.

The King's Stand Stakes will be the main even on day one and has been renamed the King Charles III Stakes. The Euro 2024 football tournament might be in full swing but that won't stop punters flocking to the course and tuning in for one of the highlights of the summer sporting calendar.

Sporting data analysis provider Timeform has picked out five tips over the course of the week.

Charyn – Queen Anne Stakes, Tuesday 2.30

Charyn kept on well for third in the St James’s Palace Stakes on this day 12 months ago but is an improved colt this year, winning his first two starts, including the Sandown Mile, and wouldn’t be winning a Group 1 out of turn in the Queen Anne. He was beaten by the reopposing Audience in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury last time but he was the only one to get near the winner that day and this stiffer track can help him turn the tables on a rival who was seen to maximum advantage from the front last time.

Notable Speech – St James’s Palace Stakes, Tuesday 4.25

Notable Speech might have had an unusual profile for a 2000 Guineas winner – unraced at two, and raced only on the all-weather – but he’d looked a very promising colt in winning all three of his starts beforehand at Kempton. He took the step up in grade at Newmarket in his stride where he looked a potentially top-class miler, impressing with a sharp turn of foot to defeat subsequent Irish 2000 Guineas winner Rosallion by a length and a half. Rosallion did well to reel in