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Timeform preview the Coronation Stakes, set to take place on the Friday of Royal Ascot 2017, and recommend an ante-post bet.
Though the Coronation Stakes is the obvious target for 1000 Guineas winners at Royal Ascot, the winners of Newmarket’s second classic of the season have shown up in the race less frequently in recent years, with 2013 winner Sky Lantern the last filly to both attempt and complete the double.
Sky Lantern was sent off at 9/2 when bolting up in that renewal, but we are unlikely to get such a price about this year’s 1000 Guineas heroine Winter after she added the Irish equivalent with the little fuss next time, putting in a more complete performance than she did at Newmarket if anything. Winter is odds-on, and perhaps rightfully so, but she doesn’t make a great deal of appeal for ante-post purposes, for all that Aidan O’Brien has said the race is a likely next target for her.
At juicier prices we have the likes of Daban, who finished third in the 1000 Guineas behind Winter and Rhododendron (second in the Oaks next time out), though John Gosden suggested after the race that the Jersey may be her Royal Ascot target, and given she had few excuses behind Winter and had won the Nell Gwyn over seven furlongs prior to that, that option makes plenty of sense.
Instead, it is the fourth from the race who is of interest here. Talaayeb did remarkably well to make the frame in a classic on just her second racecourse start, and was understandably wanting a little for experience, while was also isolated from the main players in the crucial final two furlongs. Talaayeb would have been of real interest for an Oaks trial or even for the Oaks itself (dam stayed 14.6 furlongs), but connections may feel that she is capable of running another big race kept to a mile, and a general price of 12/1 looks too big at present.
Rhododendron would be of obvious interest if she came back to a mile for this, but has more obvious options in the likes of the Pretty Polly and Nassau, which was the route taken by Minding last season. Godolphin’s Wuheida won the Prix Marcel Boussac on her last two-year-old start would also be a player, though she was ruled out of the Guineas and Oaks with a stress fracture to her right hind leg, and this may also come too soon for her.
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