Horse Racing: Coronation Stakes

Yulong Investments has announced that its multiple Group 1-winning mare, Alcohol Free, will running in its slot in the 2023 TAB Everest. Defending champion Craig Williams, who rode Giga Kick to success in last year's event, will take the ride. Alcohol Free, renowned for her victories in the July Cup, the Sussex Stakes, the Coronation Stakes and the…

Dermot Weld's Tahiyra is odds-on to supply her trainer with a notable Royal Ascot landmark on Friday. It is 50 years since the Curragh maestro saddled Klairvimy to win the King Edward VII Stakes, the first of his 17 winners overall at the famed meeting. The last of them was in 2015 when the late Pat Smullen guided Free Eagle to Prince of Wales's…

All eyes were on Tahiyra ahead of the 2023 Coronation Stakes, as Dermot Weld's star carried a short price into Friday's feature at Royal Ascot. Meditate in the Irish equivalent of that Classic last time out. Meditate lined up for a third crack at the favourite, along with fellow Irish raider Sounds Of Heaven. John and Thady Gosden's Queen For…

Chris Hayes celebrated his first Royal Ascot winner as Tahiyra landed the odds in the Coronation Stakes. Veteran trainer Dermot Weld has made no secret of the regard in which he holds the filly and having gone down narrowly in the Newmarket Guineas, she made amends in the Irish equivalent. With her Newmarket conqueror Mawj absent on this occasion,…

Saeed bin Suroor says he "could not be happier" with 1000 Guineas heroine Mawj, who remains on target to try to give her trainer and Godolphin a first win in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot. Mawj is the 5-2 second favourite with Coral for her fascinating rematch with Newmarket runner-up and subsequent Irish 1000 Guineas winner Tahiyra in the…