John Anthony gives his expert view on the big races

TUESDAY 
QUEEN ANNE STAKES 
You always try to get a short-priced favourite beaten but PALACE PIER surely only needs to turn up in one piece to take the Queen Anne.
He took the St James’s Palace Stakes at last year’s Royal meeting and had just one blip in the QEII Stakes in October when the testing ground blunted his speed. His effort in taking the Lockinge at Newbury last time was excellent and there was a fair amount left up his sleeve.
Alpine Star could go for the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes over 1m2f instead but showed her ...