4.20 Royal Ascot runners and prices: Your full racecard and results for the Gold Cup

FORMER Gold Cup winner Order Of St George is set to try and avenge last year's dramatic defeat to Big Orange.

The Aidan O'Brien trained stayer has been the one to beat in the division for the past few seasons but has a few younger horses snapping at his heels.

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Four-year-old Stradivarius is many people's idea of the winner and could well go off favourite come the race.

He won the Group 2 Queen's Vase at the meeting last year and looked to have come on leaps and bounds with his successful return at York.

Vazirabad also opposes and is France's star horse and comfortably won the Dubai Gold Cup over the winter.

Further down the betting Desert Skyline looks set to be David Elsworth's big hope for the week and could be the each-way alternative.

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Full field for the 2018 Gold Cup:

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How can I watch the race?

The race will be shown live on ITV4 at 2:30pm this Thursday.

The full Ascot card will also be broadcast on Racing UK.

Racing UK is on Sky channel 426, Virgin channel 536, and UPC in Ireland on channel 411.

You can also follow our live blog with all the action from Ascot.