THE HIGH note on Royal Ascot's third day can be hit by DAR RE MI, who can give owner Lord Loyd-Webber a high-proile winner in the Ribblesdale Stakes.

The selection was beaten by a smart sort in Lush Lashes in the Dante Staes at York when having a bit of a bumpy passage and she looks sure to be suited by the extra distance of this mile and a half test.

This race is a bit of a graveyard for Oaks failures heading here direct from Epsom, and John Gosden's decision to put away this half-sister to the smart River Dancer for this meeting can be repaid.

Take a chance with SERVOCA for Barry Hills in the opening Norfolk Stakes at tempting each-way odds of 25-1. Two second places are the reason for the big price but one run was chasing home Coventry Stakes winner Art Connisseur - no disgrace in that - and I'm prepared to overlook last time out's effort, when caught napping after going to the front a shade too soon.

South Central, who whizzed in on its only run, will be a short-priced favourite to give Howard John's Bishop Auckland stable a winner after he sent out Masta Plasta to take this prize two seasons ago.

Rain is forecast overnight and WASAN as a son of mud-loving Pivotal will be well suited by the easier conditions.

Done no favours by a high draw and firm surface at Chester last time out, he is the type to do better on this galloping track and could leave his form behind, though Henry Cecil's Rattan - a lovely bred sort who should do better over longer in due course, is one to follow whatever happens here.

The Gold Cup looks match between Yeats and COASTAL PATH, the latter getting the vote because he is on the upgrade and surely Aidan O'Brien cannot have any more winners - ouch! The King George V Stakes is hard to unravel but Michael Stoute's COLONY gets the nattow vote over Tighnabruaich.