Early indications in Sea The Stars' burgeoning stallion career are that his fillies are to be reckoned with. So it would be entirely appropriate if his daughter My Titania can secure Group One glory for John Oxx in today's Coronation Stakes.
The Curragh trainer expertly guided Sea The Stars through an unbeaten landmark campaign in 2009 which wound up with a typically stylish Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe victory at Longchamp.
That day also saw Oxx score his last Group One success, not with Sea The Stars but Alandi in the later Prix Du Cadran. Sea The Stars’ brother, Born To Sea, came close with a second in Camelot’s Irish Derby a couple of years ago but My Titania looks to have a good shot at bridging the gap.
It will be her first start to a campaign that saw her ruled out of the Newmarket Guineas through illness and the Irish equivalent because of bottomless conditions.
Solid work reports Throughout, however, she has been receiving positive bulletins about her work at home and the form of her Group
Three Park Stakes win last year has hardly been knocked by the performances of the third, Tarfasha, this season.
She was runner up to another daughter of Sea The Stars, Targoodha, in the Oaks but unlike most of his progeny, My Titania has always looked a precocious sort. She will need to be against Lightning Thunder, runner-up in both Guineas, as well as the trio of Rizeena, Tapestry and Kiyoshi who met in last year’s Moyglare.
Rizeena is on a retrieval mission after a lacklustre effort in the Guineas, a comment that also applies to Aidan O’Brien’s Tapestry, while the overall French form makes Lesstalk In Paris one to reckon with also.
However My Titania’s reputation is such that she has been ante-post favourite for this for some time and, like her sire, carrying the colours of Christopher Tsui, she can prove the bookies have called it right.
The King Edward VII Stakes looks hugely trappy, featuring as it does an Italian Derby winner in Dylan Mouth, Western Hymn who endured a nightmare passage in the Epsom Derby, as well as others with big reputations – Snow Sky and Bunker – who haven’t made any type of Derby yet.
Dependable Adelaide Confirmation that Australia
en route for the Curragh in eight days time might dissuade those still with Derby aspirations, but the Epsom hero’s stable companion Adelaide could be one to depend on today.
Runner-up in a French Group Two in April, he was impressive in the Gallinule at the Curragh last time and skipped a trip to the French Derby to wait for today, a decision that can pay off in style.
Hartnell was runner-up to Snow Sky in the Lingfield Trial and may be too tough for Ballydoyle’s Century to overhaul in the Queen’s Vase, while the impeccably-bred Russian Realm might be something of a blot on the handicap in the Buckingham Palace Stakes.
The classic winner Just The Judge tops the weights in the Wolferton Handicap, a race that also includes another Group One winner in Wigmore Hall. The in-form John Gosden though could have the solution in Dick Doughtywylie.
