Bookies suffer second bashing

Bookmakers continue to count the cost of Royal Ascot despite making a bright start to day two.

After being on the ropes at the end of the opening skirmish, the layers began well with the first three results all going in their favour.

The victories of Ouqba (12-1) in the Jersey Stakes and Spacious (10-1) in the Windsor Forest saw them recoup a nice slice of their money and when the strongly-fancied Tartan Bearer was overturned by French raider Vision D’Etat (4-1) in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes, they must have felt it was their day to be in charge.