The G1 Coronation Cup has a new sponsor and will this year be run as the Coral Coronation Cup on Friday, June 4. Coral joins Cazoo as the official betting partner for Cazoo Oaks Day at Epsom.
The Coronation Cup returns to Epsom following its brief relocation last year to Newmarket during a Covid-disrupted start to the turf season in Britain. It will be one of three races on the card to be sponsored by Coral, along with the listed Surrey S. It represents a first for the company at Epsom Downs but it has a long-running association of more than four decades with the G1 Coral-Eclipse at neighbouring Sandown Park.
“We're thrilled to announce this partnership with Coral, headlined by one of our most high-profile Group 1 races in the shape of the Coral Coronation Cup which so many of our sport's best middle distance horses have won over the last 120 years,” said Phil White, regional director of The Jockey Club.
Coral's PR director Simon Clare added, “We are delighted to be associating Coral with a race as prestigious as the Coronation Cup, and a day with the magnitude of Cazoo Oaks Day. Coral is the most committed long-standing sponsor in British racing, with three Coral sponsorships alone dating back to the 1970s–the Coral-Eclipse since 1976, the Coral Cup (and before that the Coral Golden Hurdle) since 1974 and the Coral Welsh Grand National since 1973, and we are thrilled to be strengthening this leading position with an association with the Coral Coronation Cup.”
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