Royal Ascot Group 1's Betting Guide: Is Illinois the New Kyprios? 20/1 bet & the Banker of the Week!

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

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The Final Furlong Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things Royal Ascot. Host Emmet Kennedy is joined by expert analysts Adam Mills, Andy Newton, George Gorman, and Peter Michael to preview every single Group 1 race of the 2025 Royal Meeting. The team opens with Tuesday’s St James’s Palace Stakes, where Field Of Gold, Ruling Court, and Henri Matisse—the English, Irish, and French Guineas winners—go head-to-head in a generational clash. Who comes out on top? Then it’s the Queen Anne Stakes, and six of the last ten winners came through the Lockinge—but does Lead Artist, Rosallion, Dancing Gemini, or Notable Speech hold the edge, or is there a live outsider? We dig into the King Charles III Stakes, break down Wednesday’s Prince Of Wales’s Stakes where Los Angeles bids to dominate again, and ask: can White Birch or Anmaat flip the form? On Thursday, Illinois fills in for Kyprios in the Gold Cup—but is he good enough to stop Trawlerman from going one better than 2024? Friday’s feature races bring fireworks: Is Shadow Of Light a sprinting superstar in the Commonwealth Cup? Can Zarigana claim the Coronation Stakes, or is there a monster each-way bet hiding in plain sight? Finally, we close with the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes—a true international war. Who will emerge victorious? You’ll get:✅ Smart angles on draw, pace, and form🔥 A bold 20/1 selection💰 Our best-value banker of the week💣 One confident nap with strong consensus from the panel Whether you're tuning in for the tips, the insight, or the banter—this is the Group 1 betting guide you can’t afford to miss. Form Tools: Proform is the essential tool for punters looking to make money from betting on Horse Racing. Our form book covers Jumps and Flat racing in the UK and Ireland. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.proformracing.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Twitter: @FinalFurlongPod Email: [email protected] In association with Adelicious Podcast Network. Hosted on Megaphone. Follow us for free on Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3e6NnBkr7MBstVx5U7lpld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Never miss an episode of the Final Furlong podcast.
0:03.8	Subscribe now on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:09.4	And now, here's your host, Emmett Kennedy.
0:11.8	Hey, welcome to the Final Furlong podcast.
0:13.4	We are previewing the Group Ons for Royal Asket.
0:16.4	We're going to do so with full team coverage.
0:18.1	We got George Gorman, Adam Mills, Peter Michael and Andy
0:20.9	Newton here to take you through all of the major group one prizes and we'll have a really
0:24.4	excellent team for the individual day previews as well. We will begin with the curtain
0:28.8	razor, the Queen Anne. Six of the last 10 winners had run in the lock-in stakes. Three of them
0:32.8	have done the double and we've got lead artist dancing Gemini Rosalien a notable speech all rematching from Newbury the betting is expecting last year's while Ascotts hero in the st. James's power stakes
0:41.3	Rosalien to be the one to take the significant step forward but there's only two pounds separating
0:45.1	them on time form so Adam Mills what is your overall view of the queen and stakes which looks to be an
0:51.1	explosive renewal yeah I think it's a very deep race um I kind of felt like the lock inch form was looks to be an explosive renown. Yeah, I think it's a very deep race.
0:58.9	I kind of felt like the lockings form was going to be reversed, and that was the first angle into it, that two furlongs to run in the lockings, you'd be heavily punting that
1:04.4	Rosalty in a notable speech were going to go by.
1:06.5	They were certainly travelling better, and they just both looked like they blew up. And he's probably no better than me, but I think I'm right and say it's 13 in the last 19 were four-year-olds.
1:15.5	Four-year-old. Yeah. Yeah, got it. So I think, yeah, something like that. And four or five-year-olds
1:21.9	have obviously got a great record, isn't it? But yeah, I mean, most of the 40, aren't they? Yeah, I think you really want a four-year-old Colt, but I can see the case of Rosalien.
1:30.7	I thought notable speech was a bit big compared to Rosalien, but then two of the most likely winners, but probably the value is Kudwar, who's as big as 20 to 1 out there. I think just think on his form, he's a five-year-olds.
1:44.5	It's probably that's against him.
1:45.6	But there is a case to him made from his form.
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