Two-Year-Old Guide author Dan Briden previews the Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot.
The defection of strong ante-post favourite Albert Einstein has blown the Coventry Stakes wide open. It is difficult to rule many out, which tends to point to it being a far from strong renewal albeit that’s obviously something we won’t know for a while yet.
Postmodern understandably heads the betting having posted the most visually impressive performance of the novice/maiden winners, setting a strong pace and maintaining it readily without Jamie Spencer having to get overly busy in the saddle. Such tactics here up in grade won’t be so easy to pull off - not that he will need to, of course. Full of potential but priced accordingly.
Aidan O’Brien fields a pair of once-raced winners in the shape of Gstaad and Warsaw. Both impressed with their finishing efforts on debut, with Gstaad (a half-brother to Vandeek, incidentally) forced to switch before leading close home at Navan.
