Moore: The Gurkha my best chance of a winner

Ryan Moore set a new best last season when becoming the first rider since the war to record nine winners during Royal Ascot and has high hopes of another successful week.

The former champion considers French 2000 Guineas winner The Gurkha as perhaps his best chance this time around, in what looks like being a red-hot St James’s Palace Stakes on Tuesday.

He said: “Last year seems a long time ago now. I thought going into the meeting last year that I had three with definite chances but two of them got beat and only one won.”