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Was pretty good racing on the middle day of Guineas week today, despite a rain-affected track.

The G3 Stewards Stakes ended in a dead heat between Coup Bloomsbury and O'Cartier, with Superalloy only a nose away in 3rd! Great finish.

And a consistent performer got a well-deserved in the main race, the G2 Coupland's Mile. Final Reality (39:9-9-4) has been placed in so many major races, including the Derby and 2000 Guineas two seasons ago, and this was his first win at anything higher than G3 level.

His stablemate Benelli ran 2nd, a great performance by trainer Michael Pitman.

Also, there was an exciting performance on the undercard by a 3yo called C'est La Guerre. He was favourite after impressively winning his only previous start, but looked hopeless after dropping back to last on the turn for home. But then he accelerated amazingly, hit the lead half way up the straight and comfortably held off some late challenges. Now he's 2-for-2, looks like an exciting horse.

Now we look ahead to the 2000 Guineas on Saturday. The field:

1 Alamosa
2 Eel Win
3 Hold It Harvey
4 Letsleeponit
5 Pierre Joseph
6 Rios
7 The Pooka
8 Yao
9 Zlato

Small field, but very high on quality. PPs to come tomorrow.