Just five runners go to post for the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot on Wednesday, the first £1m race at the meeting, and while that might seem a poor return for a seven-figure investment, all five have a live chance on the pick of their form.
It is an international field, too, with Shahryar, the Sheema Classic winner on World Cup night in Dubai, attempting to become the first Japanese-trained winner at the Royal meeting, while Joseph O’Brien sends State Of Rest from Ireland, hoping to add a win as a trainer after having taken this race as a jockey aboard So You Think in 2012.
