STRADIVARIUS should play a familiar Ladies’ Day refrain for a hat-trick of triumphs in the Gold Cup (3.35) at Royal Ascot today.
The John Gosden-trained star has ruled the stayers’ division with a rod of iron to lift the last two runnings of the two-and-a-half-mile Group 1 - and it will rank as a shock if Frankie Detori’s mount doesn’t rack up the threesome.
Punters can seek to boost their return by choosing the rival to chase Stradivarius home - and Technician is fancied to claim the silver medal.
Martyn Meade’s four-year-old captured the top-level Prix Royal-Oak at Longchamp in October and has more to offer when stamina is at a premium.
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