Gamut gamble in King George

WARRSAN and Phoenix Reach may have been strutting their stuff on the gallops yesterday morning but it was the Sir Michael Stoute-trained Gamut that has caught the imagination of punters.

While the former pair booked their tickets for Saturday’s King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes with pleasing homework, the latter is now as low as 6-1 for the Ascot showpiece with Ladbrokes.

Gamut, the recent winner of the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud, will be bidding to give his Freemason Lodge handler a fourth win in the race after he scooped the first prize two years ago with Golan, in 1993 with Opera House and in 1981 with Shergar.