How to bet your £20 on day two of the July meeting: Hope can deliver

On paper there may be two top-level winners in Wuheida and Greta G, but the Godolphin filly has yet to be seen this season due to a setback, and John Gosden’s representative ran down the field at Royal Ascot having not seen a racecourse since a Group One success in Argentina on heavy ground 12 months ago.

We have no idea whether Wuheida has trained on and it is a leap of faith to back last season’s unbeaten Prix Marcel Boussac winner on her seasonal debut after a 285-day layoff, despite Charlie Appleby's good form on day one.

The form of her French race has worked out well, however, with the fourth, Senga, winning the French Oaks last month and Dabyah scooped the Fred Darling before finding the Aidan O’Brien trio of Winter, Roly Poly and Hydrangea all too good in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot. But in summary I’m happy to pass on her at 7-2.

Roly Poly’s form behind Winter at Royal Ascot and in the Irish Guineas entitles her to be the 9-4 favourite, but whether you want to be taking cramped odds about a filly who has not won in a year and seven starts is another matter entirely.

Saeed bin Suroor, who is firing in the winners at a strike-rate of 50 per cent in the past fortnight, will know more than most about the state of Wuheida’s wellbeing and it is interesting he pitches Arabian Hope in to the fray. She has entries in the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood and the Yorkshire Oaks, too.

Josephine Gordon gets another shot at Group One glory, and the pair did the job in the Ganton Stakes at York when most of Friday’s rivals were dueling at the royal meeting. She only outpointed some decent, if unspectacular older horses in that Listed contest but she is improving rapidly and might not have to be of Group One standard to win this weak event.

In the Bet365 Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes it is hard to fault Nyaleti, who could get an uncontested lead under William Buick. She went down all guns blazing against September in the Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot, and on a decent surface she could be hard to peg back from the front. She is dropped down a furlong from the seven at Ascot and will not be stopping.

Stalking her, however, will be Richard Hannon’s Out Of The Flames, who was third in the Queen Mary Stakes but that race strongly favoured the first ten horses home who raced down the stands’ side. Aidan O’Brien’s Clemmie is drawn away from those two in stall eight, and might struggle.

The Silver Bunbury Cup is one of the hardest races in the calendar to fathom, purely because it is effectively a 24-hour declaration big-field handicap. It looks easy on the face of it after Parfait ran a huge race in the Jersey Stakes at Royal Ascot behind Le Brivido and is now 7lb well in for that run. At 3-1 favourite the Godolphin gelding looks pretty short, however, given that only 10lb splits the top 16 runners in the field.

He is unlikely to get his own way up front from stall two, either, with Swift Approval in 10 and Majestic Moon in 14 spreading out the pacemaking duties across the 19 rivals.

Owen Burrows’ Fawaareq will break two stalls out from Parfait and will relish getting a two in to the race. He shaped very well on his reappearance in April when he travelled strongly in a Haydock handicap over seven furlongs but kept on in the closing stages. Finishing ahead of him that day was Oh This Is Us, who went on to land the Listed Spring Trophy and was then third in the Group Three Diomed Stakes at Epsom. Immediately behind him was Calder Prince, who won a decent 0-95 handicap at Haydock last week. Jockey Jim Crowley rode a treble on Thursday and all looks in line for a big run.

Over at Ascot Harry Bentley could conceivably get his own way up front aboard Camerone in the Cushman & Wakefield EBF "Breeders' Series' Fillies" Handicap at Ascot.

Camerone looked to be the type trainer Ralph Beckett should put away last season after her victory in a humdrum Brighton maiden in October and her fourth behind the smart Atty Persse on her racecourse debut in September. Beckett obliged and the daughter of dual Derby winner Galileo, who is out of a mare by Derby winner Sinndar should relish every inch of this 12-furlong handicap now. It is not a given that Bentley will take the lead, but she was sent to the front in the Lingfield Oaks Trial won by Hertford Dancer when she ran well for a mile before the petrol tank ran dry. As a late foal born on April 25, she should improve and build on her seasonal debut when outpointing just two others at Beverley last time. That performance showed she has all the battling qualities anybody could wish for, and she had to knuckle down from four furlongs out to deny by a short head High On Light after a searing gallop.

Camerone held an Irish Oaks entry on the day of her victory and she could exploit what could be a very lenient handicap mark of just 81.

Bentley conceivably could have a double at the Berkshire course because in the preceding contest he takes the ride on the improving handicapper Mount Moriah, who also sits at the bottom of the weights.

The rain has come for Beckett’s charge, who was so impressive in soft ground at Newbury and following that performance Bentley suggested a step up in trip was well within his mount’s compass.

How to bet your £20 on Friday:

OPTION ONE:

1.50 Newmarket: £5 Fawaareq at 7-1 with Bet365, Betway and Bet Victor

2.25 Newmarket: £5 Nyaleti at 9-4 generally available

3.25 Ascot: £3 Mount Moriah

3.35 Newmarket: £4 Arabian Hope at 5-1 generally available

4.00 Ascot: £3 Camerone

OPTION TWO:

£1 Lucky Fifteen (Four singles, six doubles, four trebles and one accumulator)

4.00 Ascot: Camerone

and

3.35 Newmarket: £5 Arabian Hope at 5-1 generally available

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