Gstaad blows Coventry rivals away with emphatic success for Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore

Gstaad was a decisive winner of the Coventry Stakes with a yawning three-length gap back to the placed horses in the opening two-year-old contest of the week.

The 7-2 favourite, who raced in the nearside group, broke free of his rivals with a furlong and a half to go and powered clear up the centre of the course in the style of a horse head and shoulders above his opponents.

The placed horses were spread across the course with Do Or Do Not second on the far side at 80-1 and Coppull third on the near side at 66-1.

What the winning trainer said

Aidan O'Brien: "What can you say? He’s a lovely horse. I’m delighted for the lads and for everyone. He didn’t get out for a while and was standing in a queue, but won very nicely first time. He’s making up into a very nice horse and looks like he’ll definitely get seven furlongs.

"Gstaad is a good horse in his own right but Albert Einstein has always been something else. He's something that we didn't have before.

"From the first day he worked he's the most different horse we've ever seen. He's so quick. He's so big we had to back off him a little bit but he's very exciting."

Racing world will be watching when Albert Einstein turns up

By Stuart Riley, news editor

Aidan O'Brien has two jobs, training Coolmore horses to run faster than all the others and creating future stallions.

He's evolved his game massively from the early days, when suggesting a Guineas winner had the speed for a July Cup was itself revolutionary. The recent fanning of Auguste Rodin and City Of Troy, with their Japanese and US bloodlines, is proof of that.

However, at Ascot yesterday O’Brien took things to a whole new level. Here, an impressive victory in a stallion-creating race was used to hype a colt who hadn’t even run.

Albert Einstein: comes up with a winning formula at the Curragh on Sunday

Albert Einstein: highly thought of by Aidan O'BrienCredit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)

Impressive Coventry victor Gstaad, it would appear, isn’t fit to lace the absent Albert Einstein’s boots. That is how good the son of Wootton Bassett is - and the Coolmore-owned sire is mightily significant here.

“Albert Einstein has always been something else,” O’Brien declared on ITV. “He's something that we didn't have before. From the first day he worked he's the most different horse we've ever seen.”

They are staggering words to utter about a non-runner in the June of his two-year-old campaign, but for all they have to be taken with a pinch of salt, part of what makes O’Brien so good at hyping up his horses is it’s easier to think of times when he's got it right rather than wrong.

Wherever Albert Einstein turns up next, the racing world will be watching.

What the winning rider said

Ryan Moore: "He was very impressive. I thought he travelled beautifully, and we got to the front a long way from home. He’s a tall horse and is obviously improving with each run and that was a very good performance."