Dave Nevison's tips for third day of Royal Ascot: Wild Illusion looks real thing

Our betting expert was on the mark with Kew Gardens on Wednesday and has three more selections for Thursday's action.

Konchek is taken to reverse Sandown form with Vintage Brut from last time out and is a strong each-way selection in Thursday’s Norfolk Stakes. which opens proceedings on the third day of Royal Ascot.

Clive Cox has a strong team of two-year-olds (Shades Of Blue went agonisingly close in the Queen Mary) and is obviously keen to support his top class sprinter Lethal Force in his early stallion career and that loyalty looks to have been well rewarded already with Konchek.

This horse made a successful debut at Newmarket and did not get the rub of the green in the National Stakes at Sandown last time, being caught out wide whereas the winner was prominent on the inner.

This is a strong, fast, scopey type - just the type to emerge as a good sprinter. He can prove it here.

Wild Illusion ran a blinder when runner-up in the Oaks and rates a banker in the Ribblesdale.

Previously she had been fourth in the 1,000 Guineas and she clearly represents genuine form of Classic standard, which nothing else in the field comes close to at this stage.

Good to firm ground is no issue, in my view, even though she won her Group One last year on good to soft. The only worry is that she has obviously endured hard races whereas her rivals have had an easier time. But they all have too much ground to make up for me.

Order of St George was my biggest bet of last year. In fact, I backed him immediately after he won the Gold Cup in 2016 and sweated for 12 months.

Ryan Moore was not at his brilliant Ascot best whereas James Doyle, on Big Orange, definitely was but I fancy the former will make amends on Thursday.

Order Of St George does not always impress in his warm-up races for the Gold Cup and has had little opportunity to show anything dramatic in two easy wins recently but I’m sure he will be absolutely spot on.

Stradivarius is challenging for favouritism after his win in the Yorkshire Cup but I feel he might be next year’s winner and the strength and maturity of Order of St George will hold him at bay on this occasion.

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