Coakley News

• Connie Moon has everything go against her in a Kempton fillies handicap

  13 February 2026

  Drawn centrally for the one mile three furlong fillies handicap at Kempton Park. Connie Moon was prominent but soon suffered by being squeezed out after just a furlong and she then dropped to midfield, before moving rapidly up to lead before a half mile into the race. With a quarter mile left she was shaken up by Rossa Ryan, but entering the final furlong she hung left a little and quickly weakened to finish quite a remote seventh beaten about ten lengths. Denis feels that she has a lot more to offer than she was able to show on this occasion, and if things do fall her way she can go on to win races this year.

• Our Guy burns up his chances and may now switch to six

  

  09 February 2026

  Running over seven furlongs at Lingfield and having his third race run, Our Guy was much too keen through the first two furlongs and didn't settle, so jockey Cieren Fallon took account of this when he faded in the home straight. The plan for his next run will be to do things the other way round, in terms of tempo and effort, and he may go back another furlong to contest an event over six furlongs.

  Charlie is looking to bring together a new syndicate of owners, and to this end he has purchased from the Tattersalls February sales a horse called Uniter who has been in training with Andrew Balding at Kingsclere. Previously owned by Denford Stud, this bay gelding (pictured here) has run six times on the all weather and the turf between six furlongs and a mile. Placed twice as a two year old, Uniter has a rating of 65 with the potential to be very competitive in handicaps and he will be trained to be a regular runner for his new owners. He is by Oasis Dream out of a Frankel mare, and is closely related to Midas Touch and Coronet, succesful at Listed and Group level.

• Party Island puts in a great effort to finish fourth at Kempton Park

  05 February 2026

  Party Island ran a fine race at Kempton over eleven furlongs, despite being a little overlooked in the market he came there very strongly in the straight to head the field outside the furlong pole, only to be passed inside the last hundred yards of the race. He likes to have something to run at to be at his best, and the first three home came from behind to collar him inside the distance and, although he kept on well, he just lost third in the final fifty yards. Remaining so competitive, next time out he will return to Lingfield over a mile and a half, and jockey George Bass knows that these are perhaps his optimum conditions nowadays to win once again.

• TERRANOBLE WINS IN GREAT STYLE AT WOLVERHAMPTON

  04 February 2026

  Last Friday connections were delighted as Imelda Coakley travelled over to see her Ubettabelieveit colt triumph in a Novice race at Wolverhampton, only his third race and stepping up to an extended nine furlongs. Jockey Tyler Heard always looked confident, travelling comfortably in third place before moving up three wide on the crown of the home turn. Terranoble eased to the front at the top of the straight and then opened up by two or three lengths down the middle of the track to win emphatically. As Denis explained to Matt Chapman on Sky Sports Racing afterwards he was very pleased with the colt and confident Terranoble would stay a mile and a quarter well, as his dam was a horse also trained by Denis at Keeper's Stables - the filly Carmenere, who had looked such a very promising horse before sustaining a broken pelvis and having to be retired from racing. Terranoble has an exciting season on the turf ahead of him, but first he will have an easy month before tuning up for the 2026 campaign and looking to land a nice race or two.

• Progressive runs to start off the New Year

  12 January 2026

  Denis was delighted with the second run of his sister Imelda's horse, Terranoble, who had caught the eye on debut and this time finished a very good third at Lingfield to two highly regarded horses trained by Messrs Balding and Tregoning. Terranoble will most likely have one more run and then take a break before beginning his 2026 campaign off a handicap mark. 

  At Kempton in a class 4 event Our Guy ran a much better paced race for Chris van Hoorn, only five lengths back this time and really coming on a lot from his first run as expected. Back down at Lingfield for the same owner Connie Moon had no luck at all in running, stepping up to a mile and a half. In what was a very very slowly run event she was stopped in her run over a furlong from home, finishing sixth but only just over two lengths back. Things really didn't go her way at all as she returned after a break, so it is hoped that she will be winning soon if a race is run to suit and she is given a proper chance to show her talent.

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