Daily Racing Tips: French raider can land battle of the Guineas girls

Tipping / Carl Harris / 19 June 2009 / Leave a Comment

Carl Harris has three more bets on day four of Ascot.

Yeats was a welcome relief for my Royal Ascot endeavours which have been pretty poor to date. What we saw was the transformation of a champion into a legend as well as a huge gamble landed, it was a pleasure to watch.

So three days down, two to go. In many ways the Coronation Stakes (3.45) is the best race of the week, it certainly is the race of the day, with a quality field of three-year-old fillies. Again won the Irish 1,000 Guineas, Ghanaati won the English 1,000 Guineas, Rainbow View was last year's champion filly and French training sensation Jean-Claude Rouget saddles French Guineas winner Elusive Wave. I see this as a match between the three Guineas winners.

Ghanaati looks a really good filly but I will take Elusive Wave at the prices. I will be laying Rainbow View who hated the ground at Newmarket and will be on a similar surface today.

The 3.05 is a decent Group Two for three-year-old colts and geldings in which Black Bear Island is favourite and runs after a really poor show at Epsom where he didn't handle the track. There are plenty of Derby also rans in this race but I am going for one who didn't run at Epsom in Native Ruler. He was going well in the Dante before being short of room and at the early prices is a worthy win and place bet for a trainer who is overdue a Royal Ascot winner.

Wesley Ward has had two winners with two-year-olds so far and at the start of the week he said that Aegean was his best horse. He has proved that his two-year-olds are ahead of the European team and should be noted particularly given what has been seen so far. I must side with Aegean though the draw is a worry, I guess we will see if there really is a draw bias or not. With early speed Aegean may be able to overcome the draw and make it a third win for the American team.

Fridays Bets...
2.30 Aegean - win @ [3.25]
3.05 Native Ruler - win and place @ [8.0] & [2.74]
3.45 Elusive Wave - win @ [4.0]