The going for day one of Royal Ascot, Tuesday 17th June, is: Good to Firm, Good in places.

GoingStick at 8am:

Stands’ side: 8.3

Centre: 8.3

Far side: 8.6

Round: 7.3

Stalls:

Straight Course: centre

Round Course: inside

Rail movements:

The rail on the Round Course will be positioned four yards out from approximately nine furlongs out to the home straight. This will remain in place until after racing on Wednesday.

This adds the following to today’s races:

16:20 +7 yards (approximately)

17:00 +14 yards (approximately)

17:35 +14 yards (approximately)

18:10 +14 yards (approximately)

Weather:

Dry over the past 24 hours to 6.30am Tuesday. 0.4mm rain recorded over the past seven days. It is forecast be dry and warm through to the end of the week. Max temps forecast to be 26c today through to 28c later in the week.

For access to our live weather station and the latest Going info, please go to www.ascot.com/thegoing

Watering:

Watered Straight Course 6mm on Monday and Round Course 5mm on Monday night. Watered 10mm on the Straight Course last Saturday, Thursday and Tuesday. Watered 5mm on Round Course on Sunday and Saturday nights, and 3mm on Thursday night and Tuesday night. The current plan for the week is to water each night to replace moisture lost through evapotranspiration.

Non-runners

2.30pm Queen Anne Stakes (Group 1)

11 Sardinian Warrior (self cert – off colour)

3.40pm King Charles III Stakes (Group 1)

2 Bucanero Fuerte (self cert – temperature)

18 No Half Measures (self cert – not eaten up)