Manning explains Ascot disappointment Kevin Manning left Ascot feeling frustrated having failed to register a winner from three big chances for Jim Bolger. Both Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Pleascach in the Ribblesdale and Lucida in the Coronation were well fancied and ran good races in defeat, but the two-year-old Round Two was a bitterly disappointing beaten favourite in the Coventry Stakes on Tuesday. "It was a little frustrating, we went over there with horses that we thought could win," Manning said. "I don't think Pleascach ran up to her best, she didn't show me as much pace as she has, when you see what she can do in the Guineas you'd think over a mile and a half she should have more pace than that. "Lucida ran a good race, they are three really good fillies (narrowly beaten by Ervedya and Found) and the draw was no help. "Perhaps she showed more pace in the Guineas than she did at Ascot, coming off the bend I thought she'd travel into the race but for whatever reason, maybe the ground which was very quick, it took her a while to get organised. "I was very disappointed with Round Two, I travelled until we got to the crossing for the round track, I thought at that point 'ok, we'd better go and do something' and for three or four strides he picked up but then he cut out and that's certainly not his running."
