August 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\nAppleby said: \u201cYou\u2019ve got to admire him. You get good horses who can do it at two and three, but when they do it at four and five you\u2019ve got to doff your cap to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re allowed to give these horses the opportunity to do it and that is full credit to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed and Team Godolphin for letting us keep these horses in training, as it would be very easy to retire a horse like him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe likes of Modern Games and Space Blues, they could have gone to stud much earlier. It was different with Rebel\u2019s Romance as a gelding, but if I had a mare I\u2019d be the first person to send one to a horse winning Group Ones at three, four and five.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis new seven-furlong Group One is what we needed in the UK and it is being well supported. A horse like him winning it will hopefully give the race plenty of kudos.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Notable Speech and William Buick after winning at York (Richard Sellers\/PA)<\/p>\n
The Moulton Paddocks handler will now target a second Breeders\u2019 Cup success with his charge, adding: \u201cI spoke to a couple of guys from the Breeders\u2019 Cup earlier today. What is good about today is he has showed his versatility on ground slightly softer than ideal.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing to Keeneland you can have a question mark about whether the ground will be a bit more autumnal, so hopefully that has given us the confidence that we can head straight to the Breeders\u2019 Cup now.\u201d<\/p>\n
William Haggas was proud of the runner-up Lake Forest, who was beaten two and three-quarter lengths but could meet the winner again in America.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could have a rematch in the Breeders\u2019 Cup Mile, we\u2019ll certainly look at it, but the winner has been there before and done it. We haven\u2019t been round a corner in this country before today I don\u2019t think,\u201d said Haggas.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to jump out of the stalls well so we\u2019ll see. I don\u2019t know what we\u2019ll do next as he\u2019s a Group Two winner which ties you a bit. He ran a good race he just had no cover throughout.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a useful horse and he\u2019ll land on one of these one day.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Trainer Andrew Balding (John Walton\/PA)<\/p>\n
Owner Charlie Bond was left ruing the ground drying up for the Andrew Balding-trained Marvelman, who made much of the running before placing third.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe probably needed a bit more rain and we\u2019d have got a bit closer \u2013 if the race was on Wednesday that would have suited us,\u201d said Bond.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s run a cracker, he\u2019d been doing some unbelievable work at home and Andrew was confident he\u2019d be placed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe question now is if we drop back to six furlongs as he has such a high cruising speed. We\u2019ll probably follow the weather.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaydock and the Sprint Cup comes into it and we obviously won the Group One in France (Prix de la Foret) last year with a horse who finished third in this race (Maranoa Charlie).<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the first time since we bought him that he\u2019s actually had give in the ground, and it\u2019s only good ground today.\u201d<\/p>\n