SCANDINAVIA set himself up for Royal Ascot and the Gold Cup with a hard-earned victory in the Saval Beg Levmoss Stakes over one mile, six furlongs.

In a race Aidan O’Brien had won with Kyprios in three of the last four years, and also with the likes of Yeats, Fame And Glory and Order Of St George, Ryan Moore started to wake up the St Leger hero with half a mile to travel in the Group 3 contest.