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HOW GOOD?

The story around GSTAAD, yesterday’s Coventry hero, is pretty cool.

He was never the number one until ALBERT EINSTEIN was ruled out of Ascot, and he had questions to answer ahead of yesterday.

Just before the race his price was snowballing into strong fave and the money for him in the ring came in as strong as an alpine avalanche. Are you getting the puns here.. GSTAAD…?

Anyway, he absolutely bolted in.

Let’s learn a bit more about him. Although his page looks great, being a half-brother to the Group 1 winner VANDEEK, a quick look through the sales shows that his dam, MOSA MINE, was bought for just £800 in April 2011!

£800, and the dam has produced a Prix Morny winner and a Coventry winner, remarkable.

You can tell he’s good as he made his own way up the middle all on his own, despite a big track bias to the near side, and he had no cover from just inside the two-furlong pole.

He is a lovely horse, but one thing that became apparent post-race is just how much Aidan O’Brien thinks of ALBERT EINSTEIN, the horse who was meant to be their Coventry number one.

He said: "Gstaad is a good horse in his own right but Albert Einstein has always been something else. He's something that we didn't have before.

"From the first day he worked he's the most different horse we've ever seen. He's so quick. He's so big we had to back off him a little bit but he's very exciting."
Woof. That’s bullish. Aidan O’Brien truly is a master at this.

GSTAAD may have won the Coventry, but a horse we didn’t even see yesterday (and one we won’t see again until the autumn) was the horse who shortened for next year’s 2000 Guineas. The great game.

The ambiguity surrounding GSTAAD is fine. He will go along with his season along the natural path, maybe even via the Prix Morny at Deauville, but one thing is for sure, we’re excited to see CHARLES DARWIN.

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