Calandagan won the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud last time out, having finished second in four consecutive top-level Group One races.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to see my horse getting into his rhythm and lengthening his stride, when I really saw him coming I started to shout,” said Graffard.<\/p>\n
“He won nicely again today, he’s a good horse, that’s two in row now in Group Ones.”<\/p>\n
Despite her defeat, Andrew Balding’s Kalpana is now general 8-1 favourite for the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in October.<\/p>\n
The King George is a highlight of the Flat racing season and it was announced on Saturday the contest will become Britain’s richest race next year with a prize fund of \u00a32m.<\/p>\n
Boasting a purse of \u00a31.5m this year, along with the Derby at Epsom, its roll call of winners include greats such as Nijinsky, Shergar, Dancing Brave and Galileo.<\/p>\n
The 2025 King George renewal was the 75th running of the race and came 50 years after Grundy beat Bustino in an epic billed as ‘the race of the century’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calandagan won the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud last time out, having finished second in four consecutive top-level Group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-25652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}