Coronation Cup

   Newmarket's second segment of its four-day Guineas meeting plays host to the re-routed G1 Hurworth Bloodstock Coronation Cup on Friday, where the dual G1 Ascot Gold Cup hero Stradivarius (Ire) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) is an unexpected yet welcome guest to the party. Where the likes of Anthony Van Dyck (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), Defoe (Ire) (Dalakhani {GB}) and Ghaiyyath (Ire) (Dubawi {GB}) are regulars at this 12-furlong trip, Bjorn Nielsen's elite stayer has not been over this type of distance since defeat in a 3-year-old handicap at Chester in...

It may be running on its original date but the Coronation Cup has a different location as well as a new sponsor for this year. Traditionally run at Epsom, the Group 1 contest returns to Newmarket for the first time since World War II and in this disrupted season the race sponsorship had become available, allowing young bloodstock agent Sam Haggas to step in to support the race under his Hurworth Bloodstock banner. The son of William and Maureen Haggas and grandson of Lester Piggott, Haggas clearly has a good...