Precise moment arrives for O’Brien filly in Coronation Stakes Precise backed up her victory in the Irish 1,000 Guineas by landing the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot. The Starspangledbanner filly was slowly away and towards the back of field alongside stablemate True Love in the early exchanges. Ryan Moore niggled the 8-13 market leader along midway through to take a much more prominent position, with True Love moving wide to get a run as Precise hit the front a furlong and a half out with True Love laying down the challenge. O'Brien Filly Overcomes Slow Start But the Aidan O’Brien-trained Precise had the rail and found more on the run to line to lead home Touleen, who had little luck in running under Saffie Osborne, by one a half lengths with Newmarket Guineas winner True Love having to settle for third. O’Brien said: “It will be interesting to hear what Ryan said, she was a little bit slow away, I thought he did great on her, he kept out, kept her out of trouble. Delighted with her. “Delighted for everybody. I thought Ryan was very good on her. When she gets there, she looks a little bit. “She can do a lot of stuff, she can stay at a mile, she can step up, it will be interesting to see what Ryan says. I’m grateful and thankful to everybody for getting her here. “She gets a little bit lazy, but when you do ask her, she really opens up – but that’s her. “I think Ryan will probably say he was probably there a little bit earlier than he wanted, because he had to move early because he was very wide and he didn’t have any choice. I think she did great. “True Love ran a storming race, she got trapped wide and it probably didn’t go well for her but she ran a great race.” Moore said: “She began a bit awkwardly, went forward, I was a bit further back but I rode her to get there in front, beautiful rhythm, wasn’t really caring what position I was in, just kept her going forward. “She’s covered ground on the turn, but I knew she was going to stay well. She’s the best filly, there was no need to complicate it, and she’s done what she had to do. “It wasn’t her fault she got beat first time up (at Newmarket). She’s a good filly, very good filly, high-class filly, beautifully trained.”
