SOAPY DANGER (4.55) has the perfect profile to nab a third Queen's Vase for Mark Johnston on day four of Royal Ascot.

Already successful with Shanty Star (2003) and 12 months ago via Melrose Avenue, the Johnston team have high hopes for Soapy Danger, who looks every bit as good as that pair based on the testimony of jockey, Kevin Darley.

"He's a relentless galloper" said Kevin about Soapy Danger after the dynamic duo had made every yard of the running to defy top-weight in a red-hot Haydock handicap last time out.

The superbly bred son of Danzig has another half-mile to travel this afternoon, however Darley is pretty sure the fast-improving three-year-old will be even better over today's new distance.

Mark goes mob-handed for the following King George V Stakes with Linas Selection (5.30), Road To Love, and Doctor Scott, in the 12-furlong £55,000 contest.

Doctor Scott ran a shocker at York recently, while Road To Love was thumped out of sight by Formal Decree on a fruitless raid to Pontefract, which just leaves Linas Selection, a most impressive winner when opening his account at Sandown.

Although Linas Selection has not reappeared since that inaugural success in April, fitness will not be a problem for the Middleham raider, who has been kept nicely ticking over with the Royal meeting always in mind.

Another Middleham-based horse in with an each-way shout is Just Joey, a rare runner at the Festival for John Weymes.

Just Joey (2.35) turns out in the opening Group 3 Albany Stakes, a race in which she might easily justify each-way support given the evidence of her second placing to Roxan in Beverley's Listed Hilary Needler Stakes.

Despite the fact Roxan failed to advertise the form in Wednesday's Queen Anne, it might have just been an unfortunate blip and Just Joey fully deserves her place in the 20-strong field for the six furlong sprint.

Should Blue Spinnaker prevail in the Wolferton Handicap I doubt if the BBC will be rushing to interview trainer Mick Easterby, who dropped Channel 4's team in the mire when twice swearing in the winners' enclosure on live TV at York.

Mick issued an unreserved apology afterwards, however the damage was done and he'll have to be on his best behaviour if as predicted, Blue Spinnaker, gets involved in the finish of the mile-and-a-quarter Listed affair.

The Group 1 £250,000 Coronation Stakes is the most valuable race on the card, a contest that offers up the chance to see 1,000 Guineas heroine, Speciosa, return to her optimum trip of one mile.

Pam Sly's bargain-basement £30,000 purchase owes connections nothing after lifting the fillies Classic at Newmarket, and then finishing a game fourth in the Epsom Oaks.

Speciosa (3.50) patently ran out of stamina in the closing stages of the 12-furlong Oaks, but she did travel like the winner for the first three-quarters of the race, which suggested there's plenty more to come from the season's leading filly.

* Soviet Song is likely to try for a third consecutive success in the UAE Equestrian And Racing Federation Falmouth Stakes following her victory at Royal Ascot.

The popular mare made it fourth time lucky at the Royal meeting in the Windsor Forest Stakes and she will now step back up to Group One company at Newmarket on July 12.

She inflicted the first defeat on Attraction when lifting the Falmouth in 2004 and then beat the talented Irish mare Alexander Goldrun last year for two of her five wins at the highest level.

''I'm sure it will be the Falmouth next as long as she's OK. If everything's right I'm sure that's where she'll go,'' said Matthew Budden, racing manager to owner/breeders the 22,000-strong Elite Racing Club."