Nap of the Day: New Queen to be crowned on Day 4 of Royal Ascot?

When it rains, it pours. After a few near-misses on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Nap of the Day on Thursday was a non-runner after rearing in the stalls.

Hopefully that doesn't happen with Friday's selection, whom I have very high hopes for.

I'm convinced FALAKEYAH is right out of the top drawer and will take some stopping in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot on Friday.

Owen Burrows' three-year-old New Bay filly was supplemented - at a cost of £46k - for the Group 1 over a mile, and I'm hopeful that decision will pay off handsomely for Shadwell.

She's only raced twice in her career so far, starting out with a facile victory in a modest maiden at Wolverhampton in November last year. That was her only start as a juvenile.

Over 150 days later, she turned up at Newmarket on Betfred 1000 Guineas day for the Betfred Pretty Polly Stakes, a Listed event over 1m2f, and dotted up, beating John & Thady Gosden's Life Of Beautiful by just over three lengths.

That rival was a fine fifth in the Ribblesdale Stakes on Thursday while Qilin Queen, third to the selection at HQ, has succeeded at Listed level at Newbury in the meantime.

According to connections, jockey Jim Crowley said on arrival to the winners' enclosure following the Pretty Polly that his mount "would have killed them over a mile" and felt she'd have gone close in the Guineas too. Not only high praise, but also encouraging about her prospects at the trip.

I think she's more than classy, and quick enough, to come back to a mile. I appreciate the opposition was modest, but she shaped like a miler to me on debut.

We're yet to see the limit of Falakeyah's ability, and she remains open to considerable improvement. This will be only her third appearance on a racecourse and second of the season.

I will be disappointed, frankly, if she's not up to beating the likes of January, Kon Tiki, Chantilly Lace and Co. No disrespect to those rivals, but I'm unconvinced any of them - bar maybe O'Brien's January if she can leave her latest effort behind - are Group 1 fillies.

It's the French raider Zarigana who ought to give us the most to think about.

Francis Graffard's daughter of Siyouni, in the silks of the late Aga Khan, almost boasts an unbeaten record, with a nose defeat in a Group 1 on the undercard to the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in October the only blip on her copybook.

That aside, she's a dual Group 3 winner and the French 1000 Guineas heroine, awarded the Classic contest over Charlie Fellowes' Shes Perfect.

That rival let the form down in the Prix de Diane at Chantilly last time out, though, and I question the strength of that field as a whole.

If Falakeyah is the star I believe her to be, she can add a Royal Ascot win to her CV and rank as one of the best fillies around right now.

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