Cracksman set to crack Coronation Cup for Gosden - (2026)

Updated: 06/02/2026

John Gosden's brilliant colt Cracksman heads 13 acceptors for the Investec Coronation Cup at Epsom on June 1.

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Cracksman 4/6 Odds for Coronation Cup 1st June 2018

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Odds correct as of 22/05/2018

Since finishing a close third in last year's Derby on what was only his third career start, Cracksman has developed into Europe's highest-rated middle-distance horse and signed off 2017 with an emphatic victory in the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot in October .

He made a flying start to his four-year-old campaign with an awesome display in the Prix Ganay at Longchamp last month .

Aidan O'Brien, a record eight-time winner of the Coronation Cup, has four acceptors, headed by Idaho and Cliffs of Moher. Both have victories to their credit this term .

Hydrangea and Yucatan are the Ballydoyle's two other remaining entries .

Andre Fabre has left in Cloth Of Stars and Waldgeist as he seeks a seventh Coronation Cup triumph .

Markus Klug reports Windstoss on course to try to become the second German-trained winner after Boreal in 2002.

Klug told:

Completing the listing of acceptors are last year's third Hawkbill, Poet's Word, Barsanti, Red Galileo and Salouen .

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