Horse Racing: Coventry Stakes

Doncaster and Newcastle host the live action on Sky Sports Racing on Sunday, with the hotly-anticipated return of Coventry Stakes runner-up Army Ethos the highlight across the meetings. Coventry Stakes runner-up Army Ethos returns for a hotly-anticipated three-year-old campaign in the BetUK. It's Where The UK Bets Novice Stakes (6.00) over six…

Nando Parrado sprang a 150-1 shock in the Coventry Stakes. Beaten into fifth on his racecourse debut at Newmarket earlier this month, Clive Cox's charge showed plenty of improvement to bag this six-furlong contest. Partnered by Adam Kirby, Nando Parrado was in front with a couple of furlongs to run always looked like holding the late thrust of…

River Tiber gave Aidan O'Brien a record-extending 10th victory in a thrilling Coventry Stakes. Ryan Moore, odds-on to become top jockey at the Royal meeting, got on the board early and there was no hanging about in the six-furlong dash. Despite having won his first two starts over shorter trips, punters placed their faith in the Ballydoyle team,…

It has been a good year for Burnley fan Alan Tattersall, whose team won promotion back to the Premier League and whose rejuvenated Vintage Clarets scored a fourth victory of 2023 in the £40000 William Hill Catterick Dash. His team are now struggling in their higher division and the owner feared his sprinter had also suffered another defeat as he…

Preparation is key for a meeting like Royal Ascot and in the case of Aidan O'Brien's exceptional Coventry Stakes winner River Tiber, the wheels were first put in motion in February. The raw speed he had been showing at Ballydoyle even prior to his racecourse debut at Navan in April was evident in the first half of the Group 2 as he matched the…

Warda Jamila is bred to be smart and looks a nice prospect for next year following a dominant victory in the mile fillies' novice. The Andrew Balding-trained juvenile was a 120000gns Book 2 buy for Sultan Ali last year and is a daughter of Coventry Stakes scorer Calyx and a half-sister to Lonsdale Cup winner Coltrane. She showed plenty of…

Ed Crisford has no fears about Vandeek running on faster ground in the Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday. The Havana Grey colt, a 625000 guineas breeze-up buy, already boasts an impressive CV, but all three of his victories have been claimed when there was plenty of cut underfoot. After opening his account at a rain-hit…

Capulet looked a good prospect when knuckling down well to fend off some rivals with the benefit of experience at Dundalk last month and he then showed significantly better form to chase home a well-touted stablemate in the Champions Juvenile Stakes at the Curragh a few weeks ago. Capulet was beaten half a length by an exciting prospect in Diego…

Ed Crisford has no fears about Vandeek running on faster ground in the Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday. The Havana Grey colt, a 625000 guineas breeze-up buy, already boasts an impressive CV, but all three of his victories have been claimed when there was plenty of cut underfoot. After opening his account at a rain-hit…

The aptly named Doom entered the history books by equalling the all-time record of a shortest-priced loser in Britain when she lost out at 1-25 in a match against Karmology at Ripon. Doom was viewed as a certainty having gone within a head of future Oaks winner Soul Sister in a Doncaster maiden last October, while her comeback second at Newmarket…

If the dangers of being lured into backing short-priced juveniles have escaped punters then Wednesday's Acomb Stakes provided evidence of that, as outsider Indian Run downed form horse Ballymount Boy. These two-year-olds are progressing at different rates and the pecking order is constantly changing. That is rarely built into the market. In the…

The second race on day three of the Glorious Goodwood meeting, hosted at Goodwood Racecourse in Sussex, will be the Markel Richmond Stakes, which is a very competitive two-year-old race. As mentioned above, this is a two-year-old race it is a Group 2 contest, so we might just see a star of the future emerge from the pack. 12 runners have been…

The Nassau Stakes headlined another fantastic card on day three of Glorious Goodwood, where the Richmond and Gordon Stakes will also be up for grabs. Here are our free tips through the card on day three of Glorious Goodwood. Chances can be given to plenty in this fascinating opener to Thursday's action. I'm going to have a small each-way bet…

14:50 - Pride of America 15:25 - Haatem 16:00 - Kinross 16:35 - Lone Eagle (each-way) *All prices are bang up to date with our snazzy widgets, while odds in copy are accurate at time of publishing but subject to change. If the course gets a bit of rain on Monday, I'd give PRIDE OF AMERICA a chance of following up on his win in the John Smith's Cup,…

Our resident tipster Raceolly is here all week with his Glorious Goodwood tips, and here are his best Glorious Goodwood Tuesday Tips for day one of the Flat racing showpiece on the south coast. Check out all his best bets here with reasoning for his selections... DESIGNER has been fancied to strike in good races this season, but for one reason or…

Eve Johnson Houghton is leaning on the strength of the Coventry Stakes form as an endorsement of Bobsleigh's chances in the valuable Weatherbys Super Sprint (3.35) at Newbury on Saturday. Johnson Houghton will also run Juniper Berries in the £250000 event, but on Tuesday seemed to warm to the chances of Bobsleigh, a three-length sixth behind River…

Another Windsor Sprint Series qualifier takes place on Monday evening with a particularly-competitive heat, live on Sky Sports Racing. There are only six runners but it looks a cracking renewal of the Play With The Finest Bookmaker, Fitzdares Nursery Handicap (6:20). Ralph Beckett sends out Matters Most who was in Listed company last time over at…

We have a bumper day of live action coming up on Friday, with 52 combined races coming your way from Newbury, Killarney, Haydock, Nottingham, Kilbeggan, Newmarket, Hamilton and Pontefract. Gavin Beech scours the cards and picks out five names worth a second look. It's pushing two years since Cold Stare last got his head in front but he's been…

WATCH My Tracer has a return to the winner's enclosure on his radar and could get proceedings off to a blistering start in division one of the British Stallion Studs EBF Novice Stakes at Windsor. George Scott's youngster beat subsequent scorer El Bodon with a degree of comfort at Yarmouth on debut and was immediately pointed towards Royal Ascot…

Relief Rally sets a hot standard in the 2023 Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury, her campaign to this point seemingly geared towards a tilt at Saturday's valuable prize. Anthony Bromley, representing owners Simon Munir and Isaac Souede, revealed after the Queen Mary that she'd been specifically aimed at the Salisbury race the time before in a bid…

The Weatherbys Super Sprint at Newbury has attracted 23 entries. Juniper Berries, one of two runners for Eve Johnson Houghton, tries to reverse previous form with favourite Relief Rally Double-handed Weatherbys Super Sprint trainer Eve Johnson Houghton hopes to finally strike it lucky at Newbury. Bobsleigh and Juniper Berries race for Saturday's…

The Wootton Bassett colt looked something out the ordinary when scoring by 10 lengths on his racecourse debut at Navan in April and doubled up at Naas the following month. Having completed his hat-trick in the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot, River Tiber heads ante-post lists for next year's QIPCO 2000 Guineas and looks set to step up in trip before…

To say Heather Main's route to training racehorses was unconventional would be a significant understatement and not remotely close to describing the path that she has taken to potential Royal Ascot success this week. It is safe to say that none of her fellow trainers will have sung in the Barbican while swinging from a trapeze as part of John…

The winner's stablemate Lightening Army set a very strong early gallop but was swallowed up by the eventual winner passing the two-furlong marker. However, Ryan Moore and the market leader were never far away and fleetingly went to the front themselves inside the distance only for Bucanero Fuerte to battle back bravely to snatch a short-head…

Rosallion and Son may have both earned themselves a place in Richard Hannon's squad for Royal Ascot after opening their respective accounts at Newbury on Tuesday. Rosallion was unraced prior to the first division of the Get A Run For Your Money At BetVictor Maiden Stakes, but there was plenty of confidence behind him in the market as the 11-8…

Rosallion strikes on debut in the silks of Sheikh Mohammed Obaid under Sean Levey Rosallion and Son may have both earned themselves a place in Richard Hannon's squad for Royal Ascot after opening their respective accounts at Newbury on Tuesday. Rosallion was unraced prior to the first division of the Get A Run For Your Money At BetVictor Maiden…

Harry Allwood kept a close eye on the action at this year's Derby Festival and pinpoints five horses who caught the eye in defeat across both days at Epsom. Nick Luck, Jane Mangan and Martin Dixon analyse Haatem's luckless effort in defeat, with the head-on shots of the closing stages revealing more evidence of the interference Haatem endured This…

A TRIO of stakes races for two-year-olds in Ireland, England and Italy were run during the past week. Porta Fortuna (Caravaggio) won the Group 3 Naas Juvenile Sprint Stakes, her second success and her second start. This is quite a family success story, as the winner is trained by Donnacha O'Brien, was owned by his mum Annemarie when she won her…

The praise becomes much more glowing, though, when you consider that the winner of that six-furlong novice at Ripon, Asadna, earned a timefigure of 109 which had been bettered by only one other juvenile before Royal Ascot in the last decade. That was Caravaggio (115) who went on to win the Coventry Stakes. Asadna will try to emulate Caravaggio in…

The George Boughey-trained Asadna burst towards the top of the Coventry Stakes betting after a wide-margin debut win at Ripon on Sunday - an effort that particularly impressed our Racing Post Ratings team. Here we look back on the newcomer's success. . . Sunday's feature races involved Grade 1 action at Auteuil and Group 3 and Listed events at Naas…

We are less than a month away from the start of Royal Ascot and star performers are beginning to push their names into the limelight ahead of the five-day Flat extravaganza and one horse that has caught the eye recently is Asadna, whose blistering debut propelled him into the Coventry Stakes reckoning. However, George Boughey's rocket will have a…

You do sometimes get what you pay for. Asadna cost 160000gns at last month's Craven Breeze-Up Sale but he looked money well spent as he bolted up on a scintillating debut. The colt out of the aptly named Looks Great ran away with the 6f novice event and scored by 12 lengths to earn a 12-1 quote for the Coventry Stakes from Paddy Power. Trainer…

Aidan O'Brien's River Tiber was introduced into the Coventry Stakes betting in the wake of a sparkling debut in the Irish Stallion Farms Maiden at Navan on Saturday. The Wootton Bassett colt was expected to oblige and was sent off the 5-6 favourite, but even so connections will have been delighted with what they witnessed. Ryan Moore waited until…

Aidan O'Brien speaks to Kevin O'Ryan on Emily Dickinson, exciting debut winner River Tiber and more in this must-listen interview Emily Dickinson could be a ready-made substitute for Aidan O'Brien to fill the void left by Kyprios in the Gold Cup following her easy win in the Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan. O'Brien often uses the Listed contest over a…

Rossa Ryan struggled to hide his excitement when discussing the chances of Coventry Stakes second Persian Force in Thursday's July Stakes at Newmarket. The two-year-old colt won easily on his first two starts, before losing his unbeaten record despite an excellent second at the Royal meeting behind Archie Watson's Bradsell. Trainer Richard Hannon…

Age Of Kings emerged as another possible Royal Ascot contender for Aidan O'Brien as he got off the mark at the second time of asking at the Curragh. A 1.1million guineas purchase last autumn, the son of Kingman was beaten a nose in second when making his racecourse debut at Naas last month. Declared a non-runner in two subsequent races, Age Of…

There was once a time when the Richard Hannon yard was famed for early season two-year-olds. When Richard Hannon snr was in charge at East Everleigh, the yard regularly bettered a 20 per cent strike-rate with juveniles before the month of July and did so ten times from 2000 to 2013, when Hannon snr passed on the licence to Richard Hannon jnr. The…

Summerghand (grey silks) wins his first Group race at the age of seven Veteran sprinter Summerghand added a first win at Group level to his expansive CV on his 52nd start, causing an upset in the process as odds-on favourite Oxted had to settle for second in the Abernant Stakes. A regular in big-field handicaps, the David O'Meara-trained…

Sawbuck won the opening contest at Punchestown Racecourse. Sent off at huge odds in the betting market, Conor O'Dwyer's runner had showed very little form previously Sawbuck became the biggest priced jumps winner in racing history with a 300-1 score at Punchestown. The huge outsider shocked the opposition in the Bar One Racing Quick Deposit &…

The colt was a 1500 guineas bargain buy as a yearling and made his racecourse debut in a top-notch renewal of the Brocklesby at Doncaster, running an impressive race to finish third behind subsequent July Stakes winner Persian Force. Next time out the two-year-old won a Leicester novice, another race from which the form has looked strong as the…

Since 2010, seven winners of this race had competed at Ascot on their latest start, a statistic that is likely to be enhanced as this year's market is dominated by those exiting the royal meeting. However, they contested several different races over a range of trips, so what has been the ideal prep? In the same 11-year period, horses who were…

Legendary jockey Lester Piggott, perhaps the greatest rider there has been, has died at the age of 86. He died peacefully in the early hours of Sunday morning in Switzerland, having been in hospital several days. His death comes six days before the Derby at Epsom, a race he will always be synonymous with. He won the greatest Flat race in the world…

The Amo Racing silks will be spotted plenty over the course of Royal Ascot - but connections feel their best chance of the week comes in Tuesday's Coventry Stakes with Persian Force. Winner of the Brocklesby Stakes by almost five lengths at Doncaster on the opening day of the season, the Richard Hannon-trained colt has only run once more…

Racing TV's Tom Bull provides his verdict on the 15 contenders in Saturday's QIPCO 2000 Guineas plus predicts the 1-2-3 for the first Classic of the season, live on Racing TV. By Tom Bull A winter of expectation and anticipation comes to an end with the arrival of the first Classic of the season on Saturday, the QIPCO 2000 Guineas. The pendulum of…

Rajasinghe came out on top after a thrilling climax to the Coventry Stakes. The Richard Spencer-trained colt was an 11-1 chance after making an impressive debut at Newcastle last month and was produced to challenge down the centre of the track by Stevie Donohoe. Headway, carrying the colours of the Royal Ascot Racing Club, finished strongly nearer…

Some exciting, improving two-year-olds will line up for the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury on Saturday afternoon, as they look to potentially push their name into the Classic picture next season, and our in-house tipster Steve Chambers is here with his big-race preview and picks out his best bet for the race... Roger Varian and David Egan…

Cold Case (yellow): finished third to Noble Style and Marshman in the Gimcrack in August Two horses stand out in this sales race and the market has found them - Group 1-entered pair Cold Case and Magical Sunset. Both arrive with differing profiles but similarly appealing claims. Cold Case ran third to Noble Style and Marshman in the Gimcrack in…

Well, I hope you backed Gavin's tips yesterday because you would be 5 points in profit on day one alone. It was a successfull day for our racing tipster at York Ebor Festival day 1 and we're hoping the good times continue as we look at ahead to Ebor Day 2. Today, Gavin Smith has 6 points wirth of tips spread over three races including a 5/1…