WITH his Group 1 Derby and Group 1 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe sire Golden Horn (Cape Cross) just completing his third season at Overbury Stud, it was even money at least that his first seven years at Dalham Hall would eventually throw up a good horse.

It has, the seven-year-old Godolphin homebred Trawlerman, and he didn’t just win at Royal Ascot, but he took Thursday’s centrepiece, the Group 1 Gold Cup, in a new course record time. He was runner-up previously to Kyprios.