14 Gold Cup rivals for Fame

FAME AND GLORY will face 14 rivals as he bids to assume the mantle of his former stablemate Yeats in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot tomorrow.

Wed, 15 Jun, 2011 - 01:00
Nick Robson

Aidan O’Brien’s five-year-old has won four Group Ones already in a celebrated career to date, but it has been the plan for some time to step him up to the marathon trip of two and a half miles.

Yeats famously won the race four times before earning an honourable retirement and arguably Fame And Glory has stronger form over middle distances having won an Irish Derby, Tattersalls Gold Cup and Coronation Cup to date.

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