ON a weekend when royalty will be the overriding theme whichever way you look, Naas will present perhaps a more exciting royal angle when it hosts a Royal Ascot trials-branded card.

Not all trials days do exactly what they say on the tin but with a Group 3 and three listed races, there are a number of Royal Ascot tickets up for grabs. Here are three horses who could earn that royal ticket, not to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding, but one of the hottest events on the flat racing calendar.