Stunning Limato a reminder that the sprinters are now well worth watching

Limato posts a dazzling success in the July Cup to earn a Racing Post Rating of 125

Newmarket's July Festival was watched by a record attendanceCredit: Mark Cranham

The highlight of an excellent July festival was an excellent July Cup, an engrossing prize that added further weight to the resurgence of a top-end sprinting scene that had become, in the main, somewhat turgid but is now developing the sort of irresistible momentum that carried Limato to such a splendid victory.

In Saturday's Racing Post, two of our finest brains debated whether we are currently enjoying a golden era of sprinting.

We are not, but that is not to decry what we are enjoying.

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Lee MottersheadSenior writer

Published on 10 July 2016inFeatures

Last updated 09:45, 11 July 2016

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