Soft at Royal Ascot The going at Royal Ascot is now soft and it promises to be another great day for the Ballydoyle team with Astrology now odds-on for the five runner Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes at 3.05. Of course Ryan Moore's mount ran a great race to be third behind his stable companion Camelot in the Epsom Derby 20 days ago. Joseph O'Brien will ride the Guineas heroine, Homecoming Queen in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes and she also heads the market with underfoot conditions in her favour. The step-up to two miles could well be up Athens' street in the Group 3 Queen's Vase at 5.00. The Dylan Thomas colt is around a 4/1 chance for Aidan and Joseph in a contest where Estimate (by Monsun – a German colossus) heads the betting for The Queen, Sir Michael Stoute and Ryan Moore. She has a fabulous pedigree and could be hard to beat.
