ULYSSES showed he is getting better with age as he put his younger rivals in the shade to give Sir Michael Stoute a record-breaking sixth success in the Group 1 Juddmonte International Stakes at York.

Having finished second in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes last time out, the four-year-old claimed a second top-level success of the season when making a successful switch back to a mile and a quarter, to add to his victory in last month's Coral-Eclipse.