Following on from Golden Horde in 2019 and Supremacy 12 months later, Cox bided his time with the son of Bated Breath after a meritorious run at Royal Ascot.<\/p>\n
He finished third behind Gstaad in the Coventry Stakes there and paid the winner a handsome compliment, always looking in control under David Probert.<\/p>\n
Aidan O\u2019Brien\u2019s Puerto Rico finished second for the third race in a row, but never looked like getting on terms with the two-length winner.<\/p>\n
Eve Johnson Houghton\u2019s Havana Hurricane was last at the halfway stage and while he did make plenty of progress, his run eventually flattened out and he finished third.<\/p>\n
Cox said: \u201cI was worried about soft ground because he\u2019s got such a beautiful action on a nice surface. He\u2019s very quick and did that really well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still not sure he\u2019ll go on really soft ground so if we\u2019d been in the next race it would have been harder work, but he\u2019s still very good and he showcased that today.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s very gifted and he\u2019s a proper six-furlong horse so usual plans from here, Middle Park will be the end goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien said of Puerto Rico: \u2018\u2018I\u2019m very happy with that. It was a lovely run and I\u2019d say he\u2019d be happy going up to seven furlongs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson Houghton felt the rain had already got into the ground, blunting Havana Hurricane\u2019s speed.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThe ground was just a bit loose and that impacted on his turn of foot, but he\u2019s run a lovely race.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really pleased, the horse in front is rated 102 and the horse in front of him is rated 104 \u2013 we\u2019ve turned the form around with Maximised so I\u2019m happy.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe tries really hard, he\u2019s an absolute legend and we love him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following on from Golden Horde in 2019 and Supremacy 12 months later, Cox bided his time with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114948137679305767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}