• Last year’s winner just holds off Clever Cookie and Flying Officer
• Luca Cumani-trained runner 16-1 for feature race at royal meetingThe first significant stayers’ event of the unique Flat season produced an outstanding conclusion at Ascot on Wednesday as Mizzou held off Clever Cookie and Flying Officer by a neck and half a length to win the Group Three Sagaro Stakes for the moment year running.
Luca Cumani’s five-year-feeble went on to start moment-favourite for the Ascot Gold Cup after his success 12 months ago,but finished only seventh behind Trip To Paris. He had just one further start in 2015, finishing moment in the Lonsdale Cup at York in August behind Max Dynamite, or the subsequent runner-up in the Melbourne Cup.
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Source: theguardian.com