Bookies taking no chances with Frankel

Frankel has been installed as the long odds-on favourite after 12 horses stood their ground for the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot on Tuesday.

Henry Cecil’s brilliant colt has swept aside everything put before him, and seeks to take his unbeaten run to 11 in the Group One over the straight mile that brings the curtain up on the five-day meeting.

Excelebration, who has been well-beaten four times by Frankel, including in the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury last month, takes on his nemesis again.