Prince Of Wales’s Stakes 2026

[Cork All Star]

Good performance by the winner but it looked like a case of a top class 10 furlong horse having a better turn of foot than two 12 furlong horses.

When asked if he might be tempted to step him up in distance, Gosden replied “He is too good for a mile and a half”. That is modern Flat racing for you.

[Mike007]

Gosden doing the right thing. Why go up in trip where he may well not show his best. Cecil didn’t with Frankel either and i agreed with him as well.

[Cork All Star]

That is not the point I am making, Mike. Gosden’s comment shows that it is 10 furlong horses that are the most desirable now. That wasn’t the case when I first started watching racing. The glamour distance was 12 furlongs.

OK, there is still the Arc and the Breeders Cup Turf. But the King George, once the midsummer highlight has been shoved down the pecking order by the Eclipse, the International and the Irish Champion Stakes. And the Derby is not the race it once was.

[Helcatmudwrestler]

I took the too good for a mile and a half line as a tongue in cheek comment on the back of the Derby story from the weekend but who knows .

[Mike007]

My interpretation was that Gosden was saying that he is so good at 10f no need to go 12f rather than suggesting that 12f races are ‘less glamourous’. If he had a superstar like Enable, a more staying type, i’m pretty sure he or she would be aimed more at the 12f races.

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