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• Italian Guineas winner can keep up good work of Gallic raiders • Rainbow Peak rates the best bet on fourth day of meeting 3.50 Coronation Stakes François Rohaut can keep the tricolore flying at Royal Ascot by taking theCoronation Stakes with the bargain basement filly Evading Tempete . While she can expect to be surrounded by bluebloods on and off the track at the Royal meeting, it was for only 3,000gns that the selection changed hands as a yearling at the sales. However, having shown only limited promise as a juvenile, the Rohaut-trained filly found her feet on the all-weather at Cagnes-sur-Mer and Deauville at the start of the year and translated that progression back to turf when a close second to the useful Joanna in the Prix Imprudence at Maisons-Laffitte in April. Special Duty, who finished third that day, may not have been quite at her best but nevertheless it was a fine effort and the winner Joanna has since franked that form. Rohaut also believes her to be a better filly on today’s quicker ground. Fillies who have run in either the 1,000 Guineas at Newmarket or another country’s equivalent of that Classic have a fearsome record in this contest (18 of the last 21 winners) and it was in the Italian Guineas at Capanelle last month that Evading Tempete continued her upward curve of improvement when easily beating 18 rivals. While Maxime Guyon’s success aboard a fellow French raider, Byword, in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes came on his first visit to the track, Rohaut has been here before and missed out on a victory by two short-heads when Turtle Bowl finished third in the Queen Anne Stakes three years ago. 2.30 Albany Stakes Radharcnafarraige was a clear-cut winner on her latest start of the same Group Three event at Naas which Cuis Ghaire took en route to victory here two years ago. That was a hot heat and she appeared to score with plenty in hand. Richard Hannon’s juveniles have been running well all week, even in defeat, and Memory looked potentially smart when scoring at Goodwood on her debut last month. 3.05 King Edward VII Stakes Was At First Sight flattered by finishing second in the Derby? Dedicated clockwatchers will deny that the form of the race can possibly be suspect, given the impressive time recorded by the winner. Furthermore it is entirely conceivable that At First Sight had not been able to run up to his best in that race. But the dreadful record of Derby runners in this contest (four winners in the last 20 years) is enough to persuade me to take him on here with the battle-hardened Monterosso . He has four lengths to find with Green Moon on recent Newbury running but is 6lb better off this time. 4.25 Wolferton Handicap Rainbow Peak failed to handle the drop back in trip when second to Fareer at York last time but he can show his true colours returned to a mile and a quarter. That was only the fourth appearance of his career but Rainbow Peak showed plenty of tenacity to get as close as he did to the winner, given that he was ridden from off the pace in a contest where it paid to be prominent. Connections consider him a Pattern-race performer in the making. 5.00 Queen’s Vase Beaten on his first three starts, Corsica started his handicapping career on a lowly mark of 74 but quickly worked his way through the ranks before taking a Listed contest at Hamilton. He looked to have plenty on his plate off top weight in a red-hot handicap at Musselburgh on Derby Day but battled on courageously to finish third in a big field and the move up to two miles promises to suit. His trainer, Mark Johnston, targets this race and has won it in five of the last nine years. Horse racing Horse racing tips Royal Ascot Will Hayler guardian.co.uk

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Evading Tempete can make it a Royal Ascot Coronation for French