Moon to shine in Hardwicke

Black Caviar will command all the attention at Royal Ascot this afternoon but unless you’re a big punter or a price-starved Australian used to looking at odds as short as 1-33, she’s unlikely to make any appeal from a punting perspective.

With some tasty-looking priced about the other runners, it would be easy to get bogged down in trying to find something to beat the favourite but if the hype-machine is to believed, that is a fruitless task.

Moonlight Cloud makes some each-way appeal but the value has nearly dried up and it’s a race to watch rather than get too heavily involved in.