Royal Ascot 2023: Thursday's 16/1 Most Backed Treble

The most backed horse for Thursday at Royal Ascot 2023 is three-year-old AL ASIFAH, who only made her racecourse debut last month at Haydock.

John and Thady Gosden’s filly, 8/13 favourite for the Ribblesdale Stakes, is already as short as 10/1 with some bookmakers (best price 12s) for the Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in October.

Al Asifah has accounted for a huge 48.5% of bets for the 15:40 on Thursday at Royal Ascot 2023 since final declarations for the day’s racing were made on Tuesday.

The second most backed horse for Thursday at Royal Ascot 2023 is ELITE STATUS, a short-priced favourite for today's opener - the Norfolk Stakes.

The two-year-old is rated as very much the one to beat having followed up a winning debut at Doncaster in early May with an even bigger margin of victory in the National Stakes at Sandown less than three weeks later.

More than 30% (31.5) of the bets on the Norfolk Stakes (14:30) have backed Elite Status to make it three wins from three on his Group 2 debut.

The shortest price of the Ascot Gold Cup runners completes our most backed treble for Thursday at Royal Ascot 2023. 

COLTRANE made a successful seasonal reappearance when landing the Group 3 Sagaro Stakes at Ascot last month and he will bid for back-to-back victories at this meeting after landing the ultra-competitive Ascot Stakes over this course and distance 12 months ago.

In three visits to Ascot, he's won twice and was only beaten a head by Trueshan (22/1 outsider today) on Champions Day in October.

More than 20% of the bets through oddschecker have gone the way of Coltrane for the blue riband event at Royal Ascot 2023.