Trainer Aidan O’Brien reaches a milestone at Royal Ascot after Scandinavia defeats defending champion Trawlerman in the Gold Cup. Multiple outlets report that the win becomes O’Brien’s 100th winner at the Royal meeting, a benchmark described as historic for a trainer’s record at the festival. The Gold Cup race is presented as closely contested, with Trawlerman—an eight-year-old and the previous year’s champion—challenging to the end. Scandinavia, a four-year-old rival, gains the advantage in the closing stages and edges past Trawlerman near the finish. Reporting across sources notes this as O’Brien’s 11th Gold Cup victory, and emphasises that he credits his team and continues to show no clear sign of slowing down. The event is also framed as a generational shift in the Gold Cup, with the older defending champion finally overtaken by a younger competitor. Ryan Moore is cited as the jockey guiding Scandinavia.
Aidan O’Brien reaches 100 Royal Ascot winners as Scandinavia wins Gold Cup
Trainer Aidan O’Brien reaches a milestone at Royal Ascot after Scandinavia defeats defending champion Trawlerman in the Gold Cup. Multiple outlets report that the win becomes O’Brien’s 100th winner at...
- Aidan O’Brien reaches 100 Royal Ascot winners after winning the Gold Cup with Scandinavia.
- Scandinavia defeats defending champion Trawlerman in a close Gold Cup race.
- Sources describe the winning move as coming in the final stages, with Scandinavia nosing ahead near the line.
- Scandinavia is a four-year-old, while Trawlerman is an eight-year-old defending champion.
- Ryan Moore rides Scandinavia to the Gold Cup win.
O'Brien celebrated his 100th Royal Ascot winner last week when Scandinavia got the better of a thrilling duel with Trawlerman in the Gold Cup
2 months agoOn Thursday, he celebrated his 100th Royal Ascot winner after Scandinavia won a thrilling renewal of the Gold Cup
2 months agoScandinavia beats Trawlerman in compelling Gold Cup‘Very special day for myself and everybody in Ballydoyle’For all the talk of fierce rivalries here this week, the fact of it is that no current trainer has even come close to Aidan O’Brien’s achievements at this meeting since Harbour Master, at 16-1, gave him his first Royal Ascot winner in 1997. Almost three decades later, O’Brien became the first trainer to saddle a century of Royal Ascot winners as Scandinavia clawed his way past Trawlerman in the closing stages of a compelling Gold Cup, and there is little sign that he is even pondering when it might be time to call it a day.One hundred Royal Ascot winners, and one in 10 of those has now come in the showpiece event of the week, after the moment of generational shift when the eight-year-old Trawlerman, the defending champion, finally yielded to his four-year-old rival within sight of the line. Continue reading...
2 months agoAidan O’Brien brought up his 100th career winner at Royal Ascot in the meeting’s feature race, as Scandinavia got up in the final strides to win a thrilling renewal of the Gold Cup.
2 months agoAidan O’Brien brought up his 100th career winner at Royal Ascot in the meeting’s feature race, as Scandinavia got up in the final strides to win a thrilling renewal of the Gold Cup.
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