When is Royal Ascot 2026?
Royal Ascot 2026 runs Tuesday 16 June to Saturday 20 June. Each day opens with the Royal Procession at 2pm, and the first race goes off at 2:30pm. Here's the shape of the week:
| Day | Date | Headline race |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | 16 June | Queen Anne Stakes (G1) · King's Stand Stakes (G1) |
| Wednesday | 17 June | Prince of Wales's Stakes (G1) — £1m |
| Thursday (Ladies' Day) | 18 June | Gold Cup (G1) — 2m 4f |
| Friday | 19 June | Coronation Stakes (G1) · Commonwealth Cup (G1) |
| Saturday | 20 June | Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes (G1) · Wokingham Stakes |
How we pick — and why it's different
Most Ascot tipsters give you a confident shout and quietly forget the losers. We do the opposite. A machine-learning engine grades every runner in every race overnight from official form, ratings and sectional data, ranks them by probability of winning, and locks the selection in before the off. It's all logged — and crucially, we also log the races we tell you to skip. Royal Ascot is fiercely competitive and ultra-fair-priced, so discipline matters more here than anywhere: the engine will happily tell you a race is a pass.
Royal Ascot is the hardest week to beat — that's the point
Huge fields, deep form, and a market sharpened by billions in turnover. A "feeling" won't cut it. A model that scores all 35 races the same cold way, every day, and keeps an honest ledger of every call — that's the only sane way to play the festival. You'll see exactly how it does, in public, win or lose.
See the receipts
Don't take our word for it. Every pick we've ever made — winners and losers — is on the public results page, timestamped and auto-settled. Have a look before you trust a single tip.