His five opponents included winners of major races including Blakeney ( 1969 Epsom Derby ), Karabas ( Washington, D. C. International Stakes ), Crepellana ( Prix de Diane ) and Caliban ( Coronation Cup ).

She and her husband began racing Thoroughbreds in 1954 and would win major races such as the 1959 Coronation Cup with Nagami and that year's Irish Oaks with Discorea.

The Coronation Cup, a competition to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, was held in Glasgow during May 1953.

Shipped to England at age four, he wound up a half-length behind The Minstrel and Orange Bay in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and won the Coronation Cup.

His success made him the first Derby winner to win as a four-year-old since Snow Knight in 1975 and the first to win in Europe since Roberto won the 1973 Coronation Cup.

* Coronation Cup – ( 3 ) – Daliapour ( 2000 ), Boreal ( 2002 ), Yeats ( 2005 )

Coronation Stakes, Prix Du Moulin and Breeders Cup Mile Turf

Critérium de Saint-Cloud, Irish Derby, Tattersalls Gold Cup & Coronation Cup

The Coronation Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older.

The Coronation Cup was temporarily switched to alternative venues during wartime periods, with runnings at Newmarket ( 1915 – 16, 1943 – 45 ) and Newbury ( 1941 ).

Since then, the leading contenders have often gone on to run in the Coronation Cup, and the last to win both events in the same year was Shirocco in 2006.

He enjoyed some success with Celtic, winning the Coronation Cup in 1953 and a Scottish league and Scottish Cup double in 1954.

Celtic finished eighth in the Scottish League during 1952 – 53 and were only invited to the pan-British Coronation Cup tournament due to their large support base.

* Coronation Cup – ( 4 ) – Swain ( 1996 ), Singspiel ( 1997 ), Daylami ( 1999 ), Mutafaweq ( 2001 )

But after a narrow win in the Coronation Cup at Epsom Downs, by a neck from Homeric, he was found to be suffering from a heavy virus and the rematch had to be postponed.

At Epsom he was third choice in the betting for the Coronation Cup behind Royal Anthem and the 1998 European Horse of the Year Dream Well, but produced a sustained run in the last quarter mile to beat those rivals by three quarters of a length and half a length.

The Coronation Cup was a one-off football tournament to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, between four English and four Scottish clubs, held in Glasgow in May 1953.

In 1955 the then 71-year old Lord Brabazon won the Cresta Run Coronation Cup at an average speed of 44mph.

Victory on Lemberg in the 1910 Epsom Derby was his most famous achievement although he also rode winners in the 1, 000 Guineas ( Flair, 1906 and Electra, 1909 ), Lincoln ( Uninsured, 1904 ), Cambridgeshire ( Hacklers Pride, 1905 ), Eclipse Stakes ( Lally, 1907 and dead heated on Lemberg in 1910 ), Coronation Cup ( Pretty Polly, 1906 ) and the Grand Prix de Paris ( Spearmint, 1906 ).

* Bustino-won the 1974 St. Leger Stakes and the 1975 Coronation Cup and was her highest rated racehorse

* Coronation Park, a large park in the town centre on Park Road, which has children's play areas, skateboard area, games area for football and basketball, fitness equipment, duck pond, bowling green, bandstand and wildlife meadow.

Often referred to as Winter Homecoming, Hoopcoming, Coronation, Snowcoming, " Colors Day ," or Courtwarming ( the latter is especially prominent in parts of Missouri ), it usually includes rallies, dress-up days, special dinners, king and queen coronations, and other winter-friendly activities typically associated with football homecoming.

During halftime of the Homecoming football game, the Homecoming Coronation is announced by Student Activities and the newly-crowned members of Homecoming Court are chauffered around the track in cars donated by a local car dealer.

Water Orton today has a small High Street with a variety of shops and take aways, two pubs, a Primary School, two other Churches, Doctor and Dental surgeries, two Parks, a Cricket Club ( Water Orton CC ), a Rugby Club ( Old Saltleians RFC ) two amateur football sides, Water Orton United who play in the Coronation league division 1 there home pitch is the local park.

* 936 – Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.

* Charles Lawson ( 1959 – ), actor ( plays Jim McDonald in Coronation Street )

Patrick Stoddart of The Times wrote: " The millions who watch Coronation Street – and who will continue to do so despite Lord Rees-Mogg – know real life when they see it ... in the most confident and accomplished soap opera television has ever seen ".

Coronation Streets 50th anniversary week was celebrated by broadcasting seven consecutive episodes, along with a special one hour live episode, from 6 – 10 December.

* 1135 – Coronation of King Stephen of England.

* 1960 – The first episode of the world's longest-running television soap opera Coronation Street is broadcast in the United Kingdom.

* 1249 – Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots.

* 1981 – British television: on Coronation Street, Ken Barlow marries Deirdre Langton, which proves to be a national event scoring massive viewer numbers for the show.

* 1377 – Coronation of Richard II of England.

* 1483 – Coronation of Charles VIII of France ( Charles l ' Affable ).

* 1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.

* 1553 – Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.

* 610 – Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.

* 1674 – Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

* April 25 – William Roache, British actor ( Coronation Street )

* June 2 – Coronation of Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.

The Coronation of Napoleon by Jacques-Louis David, 1805 – 1807

* June 28 – Coronation of Queen Victoria takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.

* October 11 – Coronation of George II of Great Britain.

* July 16 – Coronation of 10-year-old Richard II, grandson of Edward III.

* October 26 – Coronation of Tvrtko I of Bosnia.

Television roles included the recurring role of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk in five of the six episodes of The Six Wives of Henry VIII ( 1970 ), the villainous Nasca in Thames Television's Aztec-themed drama The Feathered Serpent ( 1976 – 78 ), a guest starring spot in the comedy series The Goodies in the episode " The Baddies ", as well as episodes of Paul Temple, Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Doomwatch, The Persuaders !, A Family at War, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Colditz, Play for Today, Z-Cars, Special Branch, Sutherland's Law, The Sweeney, Jason King, Survivors, Crown Court, Angels, Warship, Van der Valk, Space: 1999, The Onedin Line, All Creatures Great and Small, Only When I Laugh ( Series 2, Total Episode # 9 ), Nanny, Minder, and the first episode of Inspector Morse in January 1987.

Coronation of Marie de ' Medici in St. Denis ( detail ), by Peter Paul Rubens, 1622 – 1625.

* King Faisal II Coronation Medal – 1953