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Racing 'fanatic' Queen Elizabeth has Royal Ascot in her sights

Racing 'fanatic' Queen Elizabeth has Royal Ascot in her sights

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Racing"fanatic"QueenElizabethII could attendRoyalAscotthis week even though there will be no traditional carriage procession should the British monarch make an appearance.

The 95-year-old sovereign has several runners during the five-day meeting, beginning with King's Lynn in Tuesday's King's Stand Stakes.

Thequeen'sracingmanager, John Warren, tipped Tactical in the Jersey Stakes on Saturday as a potential winner.

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Racegoers are being welcomed back toRoyalAscotfor the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, with 12,000 spectators a day permitted at thecourse, west of London.

"Obviously thequeenwould love to attend," Warren told the BBC. "As you know she's fanatical aboutracing, watchingracingand breeding horses, and has been going toAscotall ofheradult life,"

"So, it's a shame to miss an event.

"The plan at the moment is to see how it goes towards the latter part of the week and if thequeen's able to come because she's got runners, then, fingers crossed, it will happen."

He described how thequeen-- whose horse Estimate won the 2013AscotGold Cup -- scrutinizes the winners of every race daily to see if the stallions offer the potential for breeding.

"It's a deep fascination, a very broad escapism for all the other things that thequeenhas to deal with inherlife," added Warren.

The monarch, who is the nation's longest-reigning sovereign, lostherhusband, the Duke of Edinburgh, in April.

Theroyalfamily has also experienced a turbulent time after Prince Harry and Meghan Markle gave a bombshell interview with US talk show host Oprah Winfrey earlier this year, during which they said racism had played a part in their decision to quit Britain.