Bated Breath’s Coppull Rides The Goodwood Storm To Land The Richmond

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With a hefty storm brewing overhead Goodwood, Highfield Farm's Coppull (Bated Breath) showed his rivals a clean pair of heels in Thursday's G2 Markel Richmond Stakes. Third in the Coventry last month, David Armstrong's homebred was 5-1 to provide Clive Cox with a third renewal of this six-furlong contest in seven years and was always happy in front of the group racing towards the stands under David Probert.

Finding the fence late on, the colt named like most of the owner-breeder's horses after a Lancashire village kept up the momentum to score by two lengths from Ballydoyle's Puerto Rico (Wootton Bassett), with the Windsor Castle winner Havana Hurricane (Havana Gold) a neck away in third.

“He's got such a beautiful action on a nice surface I was concerned about the rain, but he is very quick and found an easy rhythm,” Cox said in a drenched winner's enclosure. “There is a lot of years' work going into these families and it's great to have a winner of a race like this for the Armstrongs.”

“He's very gifted and a proper six-furlong horse, so the Middle Park will be the end goal this year and he has a bit of size and scope there so I don't see why he won't do well next year as well. I'm not sure he'd go on soft, so if the race had been later we could have been in trouble with this rain.”

He started in the sunshine but finished in a storm

Coventry Stakes 3rd Coppull stays on strongly up the stands' rail to land the G2 Richmond Stakes @davidprobert9 | @Qatar_Racing | @Goodwood_Races pic.twitter.com/SGLVwU4Q3o

— Racing TV (@RacingTV) July 31, 2025

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