Foxcatcher puts Cox on the verge of record number of winners

One trainer not wanting the curtain to come down on the turf season is Clive Cox after he equalled his previous best career total of winners in a calendar year when Foxcatcher made the most of a good opportunity to get her name on the scoreboard with success in the 5f juvenile maiden.

The trainer said: “Equalling last year’s best total of winners with a few weeks left of the season is great but we have won over £1.5m in prize-money and that would be more if the foreign money counted, so all in all it’s been a great year.”

Cox is still wearing a smile after My Dream Boat finished a very encouraging fourth in the Group 1 Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot on Saturday and he is already thinking in terms of next season for the four-year-old, who runs in the colours of Paul and Clare Rooney.