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Coronation Stakes tips, odds and free bets – Royal Ascot 2024
Here are the latest tips and betting news for the Coronation Stakes, the feature race on day four of Royal Ascot
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Day four of Royal Ascot this afternoon includes two Group 1 races to look forward to. While the Commonwealth Cup is an interesting watch, it pales in prestige compared with the Coronation Stakes, which takes top billing.
The best three-year-old fillies over a mile compete for the crown at 3.45pm and it is looking like a very warm renewal. The first three home in the 1,000 Guineas are back for a rematch and there is the added flavour of the Poule d’Essai des Pouliches winner lining up as well.
A field of nine has been declared for the big race today and our expert has picked two horses to follow.
Coronation Stakes odds
- Opera Singer @ 6/4
- Elmalka @ 10/3
- Ramatuelle @ 4/1
- Porta Fortuna @ 13/2
- Rouhiya @ 12/1
- Content @ 22/1
- See The Fire @ 33/1
- Skellet @ 33/1
- Folgaria @ 50/1
Coronation Stakes tips
- Selection: Opera Singer @ 6/4 with bet365
- Next best: Rouhiya @ 12/1 with bet365
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The big guns have arrived with big chances
The absence of Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Fallen Angel is noteworthy but most of the horses you would want to see in this race have turned up.
Aidan O’Brien runs two here, and Ryan Moore’s mount Opera Singer currently heads the market.
It was the perfect start to the meeting for Roger Varian on Tuesday as Charyn earned him his first Group 1 victory at Royal Ascot in the opening race. He runs 1,000 Guineas winner Elmalka and she is of course a serious candidate. Porta Fortuna and Ramatuelle were not far behind her at Newmarket and the rematch is well and truly on.
Out of the trio who ran at HQ, it is the winner who has the most scope for further progress, as the Guineas was just her third career start and she looks poised to improve. Donnacha O’Brien’s Porta Fortuna could improve for the run as she was making her seasonal debut.
Opera to sing the song of victory
Aidan O’Brien has struggled in this race in recent years but he did manage to win it with Winter back in 2017. OPERA SINGER could be the one to stop the rot, however, and the daughter of Justify is fancied to come out on top here.
The official ratings suggest that she has the upper hand and they could be proved right. It took her a while to get the hang of things as a two-year-old but she really took off once the penny dropped. She was an awesome winner of a Group 3 at the Curragh in August but it was her next start that really caught the eye.
O’Brien’s filly was utterly dominant in the Group 1 Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp in October, pulling clear to win by five lengths. An injury setback has disrupted her campaign so far and connections are expecting significant improvement from her run in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, where she finished third.
Selection: Opera Singer @ 6/4 with bet365
Forgotten French raider looks dangerous
There are no guarantees that the Newmarket form is outstanding, as it was a bunched finish and the time was not out of this world. Fallen Angel went and won the Irish Guineas despite being well beaten but she appeared to need the run quite badly at HQ.
Francis-Henri Graffard’s ROUHIYA looks like a very viable alternative to the market leaders here.
This daughter of Lope De Vega did not enjoy the smoothest of passages in the Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, as she was shuffled back halfway and did not exactly get the run of the race. She kept on powerfully to claim victory in the end and you can mark up that performance.
Ground conditions are likely to be very different here but she showed a good turn of foot last time and should be fine on this faster going. It would be no surprise if this fascinating French raider runs well and she is definitely one to watch.
Selection: Rouhiya @ 12/1 with bet365
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