Obviously it’ll be the Aga’s decision and he’s been in the game long enough to know but would you really want to lose the Arc getting bottomed on deep ground here? Not for me
Francis Graffard on his superstar Calandagan ahead of Saturday's Coronation Cup💚
🗣️ "He is in form and he is demanding to go back to the races. He’s already won on soft ground and so in the normal run of things, he’ll be at the start. He is due to leave for Epsom tonight so I will speak again with the clerk of the course and then with Princess Zahra.
"If I miss the Coronation Cup, the timing with the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and the King George becomes complicated, so I’d prefer to run."