I’m pleased to report that Stradivarius has been his usual self since Ascot. John & Thady [Gosden] have been very happy since the Gold Cup and the plan was always to go for a fifth Goodwood Cup (3:35pm), so we’re going to give it a crack.
It’s no easy task as he’s obviously not getting any younger, but he’s won it four times and sets the standard. As for the Gold Cup, things just didn’t go his way on the day and we’ve got to put that run behind us.
We’ll never know how close he could have got to the winner, but we certainly didn’t get a clear run. Once again, we’ve got a fairly big field so there could well be traffic problems, but he’s got through that before and that’s just something you have to deal with in racing.
Read more on mirror.co.uk