She was sent into training with John Gosden at the Clarehaven Stable in Newmarket, Suffolk She was sired by Dubawi, whose wins included the Irish 2,000 Guineas and the Prix Jacques Le Marois.
At stud, Dubawi has been a highly-successful breeding stallion, siring major winners such as Monterosso, Al Kazeem, Makfi, Lucky Nine and Night of Thunder.
[2] Coronet's dam Approach, from whom she inherited her grey colour, showed very good form on the track, winning the Ballymacoll Stud Stakes and went on to a successful broodmare whose other foals included the St Leger runner-up Midas Touch.
[5] On 8 October, with Dettori again in the saddle, the filly was moved up in class and distance for the Listed Zetland Stakes over ten furlongs at Newmarket Racecourse in which she was pitted against male opposition.
"[7] Coronet began her second season in the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary (run that year at Deauville Racecourse) for which she started favourite but was beaten into third behind Sobetsu and Vue Fantastique.
[12] On 1 July the filly was sent to France for the Group 1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud and went down by a short head to the four-year-old colt Waldgeist after a closely contested struggle in the last 100 metres.
[13] At the end of the month she contested Britain's most prestigious weight-for-age race, the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes over on and a half miles at Ascot and finished third behind Poet's Word and Crystal Ocean.
Coronet raced in third place behind Wild Illusion and Red Tea before going to the front 300 metres out nd holding off the late challenge of With You to win by three quarters of a length.
[18] On her final appearance the mare started second favourite for the Champion Stakes at Ascot on 19 October but tired badly in the straight and came home sixth of the nine runners behind Magical.