A race for two-year-old fillies is always a bit of a guessing game but especially this year with most of the 14 runners only having one run to their name so far.

American trainer Wesley Ward will hoping to add a first Albany to his collection with Flying Aletha, ridden by William Buick.

Aidan O’Brien has to be respected in races like this and his hopes lie with Mother Earth, the mount of Ryan Moore.

Last year’s race was won by Daahyeh and stablemate Setarhe could repeat the feat for in-form trainer Roger Varian.

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Royal Ascot's Ladies' Day was held without any spectators because of coronavirus - but some of those who have missed out this year continue to dress up to watch it on TV.

Flat racing's biggest meeting is taking place behind closed doors in Berkshire for the first time, with strict safety protocols for jockeys.

But keen racegoers have still been enjoying watching at home and have posted pictures on Twitter using the hashtags #StyledWithThanks and #hatsfromhome, while raising cash for charities.

• More fabulous photos from BBC Berkshire

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The market spoke and the result never looked in doubt - Art Power, the 6-4 favourite, pulverised his rivals under Silvestre de Sousa for trainer Tim Easterby.

Art Power, a dashing grey, is a Royal Ascot winner in the blue and white colours of King Power Racing, set up by the late Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.

1. Art Power (Silvestre de Sousa) 6-4f

2. Keep Busy (Cieren Fallon) 6-1

3. Dancin Inthestreet (John Egan) 9-1

4. Lambeth Walk (Oisin Murphy) 33-1

21 ran

• Full result

Still it's Art Power with Keep Busy also there.

ART POWER WINS!

Art Power away quickly. Lambeth Walk up the front.

We're off in the 22nd race of this expanded meeting....

Approximate odds

7-4 Art Power, 7-1 Dancin IntheStreet, 7-1 Keep Busy, 10-1 City Walk, 10-1 Never Dark. 11-1 Bar.

• All the runners and riders

We’ve got a strong favourite for Friday’s opening race in Art Power for jockey Silvestre de Sousa and trainer Tim Easterby.

The three-year-old has wins in his last two runs at York and Newcastle and is well fancied to make it three from three.

After a second place in a Listed race at Sandown on Saturday, Keep Busy is living up to her name and could go well again for rising star Cieren Fallon and John Quinn.

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Some may have been tuning in the for The Chase, but it was Hayley Turner's win on Onassis in Thursday's concluding Sandringham Stakes that drew the biggest audience on ITV - with nearly 1.8m tuning in for the contest, which went off 15 minutes late at 16:55 BST.

It was a second successive 33-1 win in the race for Turner, whose victory on Thanks Be last year was the first by a female jockey since 1987. She rides Never Dark in today's opener.

Onassis is neatly named as a daughter of Jacqueline's Quest

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Another jockey celebrating was Jim Crowley, who has doubled his career tally at Royal Ascot this week with six victories.

The record number of winners was achieved by Ryan Moore, who clocked up nine in 2015, when there were 30 races in all, compared with 36 this time.

Crowley's Friday rides

15:00 Elarqam 5-2

16:40 Durston 4-1

GOING

Straight Course: Good to Soft

Round Course: Soft, Good to Soft in places

NON-RUNNERS

13:15 Palace of Holyroodhouse Handicap

6 Will To Win (Self Certificate, Going)

14:25 Norfolk Stakes

3 Emirati Dirham (Vet's Certificate, stiff)

5 Get It (Going)

15:00 Hardwicke Stakes

5 Desert Encounter (Going)

10 Spanish Mission (Going)

15:35 Commonwealth Cup

13 Wooded (Going)

16:10 Queen's Vase

4 London Arch (Going)

16:40 Duke of Edinburgh Stakes

4 Dal Horrisgle (Going)

5 Universal Order (Going)

13 Koeman (Going)

We will come back to Stradivarius. Give us your thoughts via #bbcracing, external and any photos of you following the action from home.

For now, a look at today's schedule - remember there's coverage on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra from 14:55 to 16:20 BST.

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Stradivarius put in a majestic performance to land a third successive Gold Cup at Royal Ascot on Thursday.

Frankie Dettori made his move to the front on the 4-5 favourite with two furlongs to go and looked comfortable.

The pair accelerated beautifully away from the rest of the field to win by 10 lengths with Nayef Road (11-1) second and Cross Counter (7-1) third.

Stradivarius joins Sagaro and Yeats in winning the highlight of the Royal meeting three times.

Trainer John Gosden indicated afterwards that matching Yeats' record of four wins from 2006-09 could be a target for next year.

• Read Elizabeth Hudson's full round-up here.

Super. Stunning. Stayer. Stradivarius.

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