Another for Ireland? Coronation Stakes often slips out of home team's grasp

4.20 Royal Ascot
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We have become accustomed to seeing the big British prizes won by horses trained overseas seemingly more than ever this year and the Coronation Stakes has proved particularly elusive for home runners. You have to go back to 2014 and the Clive Brittain-trained Rizeena to find the last domestic winner; since then it has been dominated by France and Ireland.

There are no French representatives this year, but six contenders are trained in Ireland and one in or Germany. Overseas runners haven’t just dominated in terms of winners either. In the six runnings since 2014, 31 of the 57 runners were trained in Britain and that means the home team have been outperformed despite accounting for a greater percentage (54.4 per cent) of the field in that time. Furthermore, those 31 runners beat an average of just 36.6 per cent of their rivals, so they have barely even been competitive.