Kyprios turned the tables on his outdated rival Trawlerman to regain his crown in a pulsating renewal of the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot.
Aidan O’Brien’s six-year-old was the dominant power within the division when touchdown the two-and-a-half-mile showpiece two years in the past, additionally triumphing within the Goodwood Cup and the Irish St Leger earlier than a sensational 20-length victory within the Prix du Cadran.
A career-threatening harm restricted him to only two outings final season and he was overwhelmed on each events, together with a neck defeat to Trawlerman on Champions Day – however Kyprios reversed the shape on the day that mattered most to turn into the primary horse since Kayf Tara in 2000 to regain the Gold Cup.
Following workmanlike wins on house soil this spring at Navan and Leopardstown respectively, the chestnut son of Galileo was despatched off the 11/10 favorite and all the time regarded nicely positioned in behind the front-running Trawlerman and the keen-going Caius Chorister.
Ryan Moore requested the strong-travelling Kyprios to shut down Trawlerman on the prime of the house straight and whereas the latter didn’t go down with out a combat, Moore all the time regarded assured his mount would discover sufficient to get the job achieved and he ultimately did simply that, with a size separating the pair on the line.
Trawlerman’s John and Thady Gosden-trained stablemate Candy William was 5 lengths additional again in third, with Willie Mullins’ Vauban working nicely for a good distance and momentarily wanting a hazard earlier than in the end faltering into fourth.
Moore stated: “It was clean early, that is the place I needed to be after which the filly (Caius Chorister) ran off with Benoit (De La Sayette) and I used to be having to go around her. He began travelling a bit too nicely too early once more and I received there going very straightforward.
“I said to Aidan that he’s the class horse in the race and he stays the best, so I’ve just got to get it right. I didn’t get it quite right, but he still won.
“He is an unbelievable horse. Aidan is aware of precisely what they should do, he is aware of easy methods to get them right here higher than anybody.
“It’s lovely to ride a horse like this.”
