Ballydoyle comeback star highlights Royal meeting with ‘millions-to-one’ Ascot Gold Cup triumph

Kyprios ridden by Ryan Moore

Every sport needs heroes – and brilliant performances with an emotional backstory are a sure recipe for super-stardom. When Kyprios crowned an astonishing comeback from life-threatening sickness to become the first horse since Kayf Tara24 years ago – and just the second ever to regain Royal Ascot’s Gold Cup it was truly a ‘dainty dish to set before the King’!
Aidan O’Brien hailed it as a “millions...