Racing: Royal Ascot live on TV

It's dress-up time.

Racing from the Royal Ascot meeting in England over the next five days is to be screened live on Trackside television.

New Zealand Racing Board racing manager Michael Dore said a total of 30 races, including five group ones, would be broadcast over the five days.

Coverage will run from 1am to 5am each day and it will also be broadcast on Trackside Radio.

The New Zealand TAB will be operating on the Ascot races.

Betting will be co-mingled with Tabcorp in Australia and the New Zealand TAB will also operate fixed-odds markets.

The coverage kicked off early this morning with the group two King's Stand Stakes (about 1000m) which featured four Australian sprinters Miss Andretti, Takeover Target, Bentley Biscuit and Magnus.

All four could also run in the group one Golden Jubilee Stakes (about 1200m) on Sunday morning (NZT).

- NZPA