Raincoat Faces Crucial Weekend Work Epsom Classic Trial winner Raincoat faces a crucial workout this weekend which will help connections determine whether or not to supplement him for the Vodafone Derby on Saturday week.Owner Khalid Abdullah would have to pay £75,000 to add him to the field for the June 2 contest, for which Stan James have trimmed him to 28-1 from 33s.Trained by John Gosden, the son of Barathea was a smooth four-length winner of the Weatherbys Bank Blue Riband Trial Stakes on the Downs last month, and followed up that effort by chasing home Derby favourite Authorized in the Dante Stakes at York.Abdullah´s racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe said: 'We want to be positive with him and we wouldn´t supplement him for the sake of it.'You need to finish in the first three, or even four, at Epsom for it to make financial sense to supplement a horse.'He will work this weekend and John will then give us an idea of what he wants to do.'If we don´t go to Epsom he is in the French Derby and he also has the option of the King Edward VII.'(C) PA Sport
