'We can't get him off the bridle at home' - Cole out for more Ascot juvenile joy

Paul Cole, once the man to follow in juvenile events at Royal Ascot, believes he has found a talented trio of two-year-olds for this month's fixture, headed by impressive Goodwood winner .

Cole, now training in partnership with son Oliver, saddled 21 royal meeting winners under his own name and won the Coventry, Chesham and Norfolk in 1991.

He matched that haul in 1994, landing the Coventry and Chesham again, along with the Windsor Castle.

It is the Coventry once more that provides the stable with its best chance in Royal Scotsman, who fluffed his lines at Ascot before excelling at Goodwood.

He is a general 12-1 and Cole, who watched the exciting colt exercise on Friday morning, said: "He's never put a foot wrong except when he ran at Ascot first time out. He just didn't race, but was very impressive at Goodwood – he did it in strides. He's come on a bit for the race, but it's hard to tell because you can't get him off the bridle at home.

"Bar Ascot, he's done nothing to say he's not a very good horse. Jim Crowley, who rode him at Ascot and has ridden plenty of good horses, was very keen to ride him in the Coventry, so we're expecting a big run, but nobody will know the winner until it's over. Everybody will go thinking they have a chance."

Only Aidan O'Brien has won more Cheshams than Cole, who has once-raced Windsor fourth pencilled in.

"He's done all his exciting things here and I like him a lot," added the four-time race winner. "He's got a lot of speed, but the mare won the Italian Oaks and had good Listed form in the UK.

"The Chesham has been kind to us, but it's getting harder to win. In the earlier days the conditions of the race suited the type of horse I bought and trained. It's been a lucky race for me."

Cole, who stamped his mark on Epsom by winning the 1991 Derby with the mighty Generous, was also heartened by the work on Friday morning of , a bargain-basement 16,000gns buy who was second on her debut at Kempton in March.

She heads for the Albany as an outsider but the trainer, based at Whatcombe in Oxfordshire, said: "She went to Kempton and we didn't expect her to win over five furlongs, but she was showing us on the gallops she was talented, and she finished extremely well.

"That bit of work was her first since then – she got an ulcer – but we wanted to wait for the six- or even seven-furlong races anyway."

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