The Actor primed to play starring role on Royal Ascot stage

Notable Speech puts his unbeaten record on the line in the Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes and can emerge with it intact.

Trainer Richard Hannon. Picture: John Walton/PA Wire.

Royal Ascot, the best week’s racing of the entire year, gets underway this afternoon with a programme which includes three Group 1s, and not alone is it a card of real quality, it has attracted big fields.

The Group 2 Coventry Stakes looks fiercely competitive but Richard Hannon, who has enjoyed a great season to date, can continue his fine run by taking this race with The Actor.