Reaching High

From Royal runners, to formidable teams and top-notch stallions bidding to break their Royal Ascot hoodoo, here are five things to watch out for on the opening day of the eagerly-anticipated meeting. It promises to be a week to savour.  Things Are Looking Rosy For Shapoor Mistry Bidding to continue a glorious summer for Oaks-winning owner-breeder Shapoor Mistry is Rosy Affair (Havana Grey), who lines up for the G1 King Charles III Stakes. The five-year-old mare, who won the Listed Cecil Frail Stakes over six furlongs at Haydock on her...

Champion jumps trainer Willie Mullins will take the first step towards providing His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen with a Royal Ascot winner from their first ever horse they have placed in training in Ireland when Reaching High lines out in a lady riders' handicap at Leopardstown on Friday under Jody Townend.  Reaching High has a number of potential targets at the royal meeting, including the Copper Horse Handicap, in which last year's emphatic Leopardstown winner A Piece Of Heaven went on to run a respectable seventh....