Clemmie Is The One To Beat

 

The Coronation Stakes’ field is an interesting one with three individual 1000 Guineas winners but Aidan O’Brien’s Clemmie is the crowd favourite although she was unplaced in her last race, the Irish Guineas.

 

“She is in good form. She has come forward since the Guineas, but she will come forward again,” said O’Brien.

 

“She needed the run in the Guineas badly. She ran well and just got tired. She had a little bit of a setback and lost a good bit of fitness, but she is coming back. She will come forward more after this.

 

David Simcock’s Teppal was a shock winner of the French Guineas off the back of two wins on the all-weather and is now unbeaten in three.

 

“She had a really good day at Longchamp. She did ever so well to go into that off the back of two novice runs straight into a Classic. It was very special,” said Simcock.

 

The Irish Guineas winner was Jessica Harrington’s Alpha Centauri and she is looking to add to her tally in a race that forms another leg of the British Champions Series.

 

“It was a funny race, with the O’Brien horse going off in front very hard,” said Harrington.

 

“All has been good since. She is tough, genuine and pretty talented. What she loves is a nice, firm surface. She’s a very big filly and I think what happens on soft ground is that she basically can’t pull her body out of it.”

 

Richard Hannon’s Billesdon Brook was a shock winner at Newmarket and after much deliberation over her target ends up in this.

 

“I think it’s the first time for 30 years the winners of the English, Irish and French Guineas have all met in the Coronation,” said Hannon.

 

“She’s in great form, we’re very happy with her. People can question the form of each Guineas if they want, but we need to meet to see who is the best.”

 

John Gosden runs Godolphin’s Aim Of Artemis, a winner of two of her three starts.

 

He said: “She has been happy and well since Newmarket. We were inclined to come here as it is against three-year-old fillies on the old mile and that is a distance that suits her at the moment.”

 

So many great fillies and just one Crown. Who will be queen?? Only time will tell.

 

1st Winter (A. O'Brien,R. Moore), 2nd Roly Poly  (A. O'Brien,S. Heffernan), 3rd Hydrangea (A. O'Brien,P. Beggy), 4th Dabyah (J. Gosden,J. Crowley), 5th La Coronel (M. Casse,F. Geroux), 6th Tomyris (R. Varian,A. Atzeni), 7th Precieuse (F. Chappet,O. Peslier)

 

1.Adorable (M. Channon,S. Sousa), 2.Aim Of Artemis (S. Stoute,J. Doyle), 3.Alpha Centauri (M. Harrington,C. O'Donoghue), 4.Anna Nerium (R. Hannon, Jr.,T. Marquand), 5.Billesdon Brook (R. Hannon, Jr.,S. Levey), 6.Capla Temptress (M. Botti,A. Atzeni), 7.Clemmie (A. O'Brien,R. Moore), 8.Coeur De Beaute (M. Delcher-Sanchez S. Pasquier), 9.Nkosikazi (B. Meehan,O. Murphy), 10.Teppal (D. Simcock,O. Peslier), 11.Threading (M. Johnston,W. Buick), 12.Veracious (S. Stoute,F. Dettori), 13.Whitefountainfairy (A. Balding,D. Probert)

Distance:7f 213y (1,603 metres),Surface:Turf,Track:Right-handed,Qualification:Three-year-old fillies,Weight:9 st 0 lb,Purse:£430,000 (2017),1st: £243,853

Credit: Pallavi Shevade pallavi.shevade@secretaristworld.com