Kingman quickens brilliantly to win Sussex Stakes

Kingman (2-5 favourite) deployed his potent turn of foot to power past his rivals and win a fascinating renewal of the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood.

Only four runners went to post for the Group One and it turned into the expected tactical affair with Aidan O'Brien's Darwin setting a desperately slow early pace.

The four-year-old Toronado, winner of the race 12 months ago, kicked clear under a canny ride from Richard Hughes and took two lengths out of Kingman with just under two furlongs to run in what appeared to be a potentially winning move.

However, James Doyle did not panic and John Gosden's three-year-old demonstrated fantastic acceleration to clock a scarcely-believable 10.23 seconds for the penultimate furlong as he coasted to a one-length victory, with Doyle barely having to resort to the whip.

Winning trainer Gosden said: "It was a very tactical affair, rather like the Olympic cycling races when they go round the velodrome.

"They went steady, steady and then at the two and a half it turned into a real sprint.

"It was a clever ploy and for a furlong and a half we had to get on an even keel, but in the last furlong his class came through.

"He could see, he switched leads and then got rolling. It was a clever way to try to beat him but his class shone through.

"He's like his uncle Oasis Dream. He has the speed to win a July Cup.

"He's improved, he's got wiser and cleverer, bigger and stronger.

"He's got a great constitution and a good mind on him."

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