David Cormack looks at the best winners of Newmarket’s 6 furlong July Cup

JULY CUP GREATS

Limato (green sleeves, white cap) wins the 2016 July Cup

ABERNANT (WINNER 1949 AND 1950)
When you’ve ridden 4,870 winners it takes a pretty good horse for you to nominate it as ‘the fastest I ever rode’ but that is exactly how Sir Gordon Richards described Abernant, the July Cup winner of 1949 and 1950. It was a view shared by Timeform who allocated him a rating of 142, on a par with Ribot and Paddy Prendegast’s super-fast two-year-old Windy City and behind only Frankel...