Orange has big opportunity to join elite club

To win a Goodwood Cup ensures the triumphant horse a place on one of the sport's oldest and most prestigious rolls of honour. To win more than one moves that thoroughbred into exceptional company. Elevation into that elite club is the ambition held this afternoon for Big Orange.

Not since Yeats in 2006 and 2008 has there been a multiple victor of a contest whose history stretches back to 1812. Before that magnificent marathon runner, a brace of Goodwood Cups had been achieved by the likes of Persian Punch, Further Flight and Le Moss, while Double Trigger went one better and was the hero on three occasions.

Last year's winner of the £300,000 Qatar-backed showpiece returns to this most idyllic part of Britain seeking to complete a double-double having recently notched back-to-back victories in the Princess of Wales's Stakes.