Royal Ascot 2023 tips: Day 4 best bets with Little Big Bear, Tahiyra and full selections

It's been a tough week for punters at Royal Ascot as a succession of long priced winners have romped to victory. You'd have banked £550,000 for a £1 accumulator on the first five races on Wednesday and £910,000 for the same bet on Thursday, aided by a record 150-1 winner of the first.

Friday's card is never easy but there is plenty of value to be found and some real quality too, if you hold your nerve after three difficult days for backers. LITTLE BIG BEAR did little wrong in an award-winning two-year old campaign and bounced back from a last place finish in the 2000 Guineas to win well at Haydock last month.

You must forgive him that run at Newmarket - the horse was later reported to have finished lame - and a drop back to six furlongs in the Commonwealth Cup (3.05pm) will certainly suit a horse with a Group One already in the bank from last year's Phoenix Stakes.

The showdown between the English and Irish 2000 Guineas champions was comfortably won by Aidan O'Brien's Paddington in the Prince of Wales's Stakes but it would have been very different if the two 1000 Guineas stars had clashed in the feature Coronation Stakes (4.20pm).

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Surely Mawj, so impressive at Newmarket, would have reversed the above but in her absence it's hard to look past Dermot Weld's TAHIYRA, who was impressive justifying her odds-on price to claim a Classic at the Curragh. BREEGE finished 11 lengths behind her in that race but drops down in class to contest the Sandringham Stakes (5.00pm) off a healthy mark and double-digit price.

Roger Varian's KING OF STEEL ran home in an impressive second, at odds of 66-1, in the Epsom Derby, just half a length behind