Royal Ascot tips: Kevin Blake's best bets for day one

Royal Ascot is here and our top tipster Kevin Blake is providing his best bets for every day of the meeting, which is all live on Sky Sports Racing.

I will make no apologies. Royal Ascot is my favourite race meeting of the year. It isn't even close. Nothing compares to it in terms of the combination of fiercely-competitive world-class action on the track coupled with the most incredible setting and sense of real significance and occasion. It is in a class of its own and there is nowhere on the planet where it is more difficult for the participants to have a winner.