HARD SELL FOR PHOENIX

Ian Heitman enjoyed the Royal Ascot action but isn’t sure the Coventry Stakes winner will follow up in Ireland

Bradsell ridden by Hollie Doyle (right) on their way to winning the Coventry Stakes

The opening day of Royal Ascot was one of the best in recent years, three of the first four race top-class Group 1 races, Baaeed extending his unbeaten to eight in the Queen Anne Stakes, Nature Strip’s emphatic win in the King’s Stand Stakes and Coroebus adding to his 2000 Guineas win in a very tight finish to the St James’s Palace Stakes.
In amongst those Group 1 races was the first of six...

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