Sardinian Warrior might have earned Ascot ticket
John and Thady Gosden's four-year-old was only beaten a length by the top-class winner, who is now heading for the Coral-Eclipse.
Connections believe the nine-furlong trip stretched his stamina and a return to a mile is in store, potentially in the Queen Anne.
'It was a good move to go there. What we learned in doing that was a mile is definitely his trip,' said owner Marc Chan's racing manager, Jamie McCalmont.
'The winner is a top-class horse and to be beaten only a length by a horse of that class when we probably ran out of gas, I think it was a lot better run that it looks.
'Normally I have a bit of a meltdown after finishing second as I often think we've been unlucky, but on this occasion we were unlucky when Andre Fabre supplemented the winner on Thursday – that's when it got unlucky!
'He's a cool horse, he's got a great mind and he's a horse to like.
'We'll see how he comes out of the race, the Queen Anne is not set in stone at this point but it is very tempting.'
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