Coastal Path is yet to be beaten is seven career starts and his consistency and the ease with which he tackles his races has marked him out as a stayer with star potential.
His win in Sunday’s G2 Prix Vicomtesse Vigier at Longchamp sets up a mouthwatering potential clash with Yeats in Ascot’s Gold Cup, though the four-year-old son of Halling also has an entry in the Coronation Cup at Epsom on 6 June.
The Juddmonte homebred is trained in France by Andre Fabre and is yet to race on foreign turf. He won at G2 and G3 level last season and has repeated that feat in his only two starts so far this campaign.
Like King's Best’s G1 Lockinge winner Creachadoir the previous day, Coastal Path is from a Sadler’s Well mare. His dam Coraline has been a thoroughly successful producer for Prince Khalid Abdullah with her offspring including the Group-winning brothers Reefscape and Martaline, by Linamix, and their Rainbow Quest half-brother Clear Thinking. A winner over a mile and a half herself, Coraline is a half-sister to Oaks heroine Wemyss Bight.
