Stradivarius has now won all five of the
British Champions Series races in the long distance category this year and is odds-on to win the Long Distance Cup at Champions Day
A hastily arranged trip to Town Moor added £56,710 to John Gosden’s prize money total for the season here -yesterday as his outstanding stayer Stradivarius, sent off favourite at 1-9 in the absence of serious opposition, took the Doncaster Cup for the first time. Gosden is now nearly £450,000 clear of Aidan O’Brien in the trainers’ title race and will take another step towards retaining the crown if -Logician, the hot favourite, takes the St Leger here this afternoon.
Stradavarius’s 10th win in a row was achieved by what is, by his standards, the unusually wide margin of one-and-three-quarter lengths, victory having been all but assured when Dee Ex Bee, his closest pursuer several times this season, was scratched a couple of hours before the race. Stradivarius is the first horse to win the Cup races at Royal Ascot, Goodwood and -Doncaster in the same season since Double -Trigger in 1995, having opened his campaign with a win in the Yorkshire Cup for good measure.