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Previews07 September 2024
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Sixteen Sprint Cup runners, four previous Group 1 winners - whose turn is it next?

Remove Kinross from the Sprint Cup equation and this bunch's accomplishments begin to look quite ordinary. We have only four pieces of Group 1-winning form across 16 runners and that's a paltry return.

The figures look even worse for the older generation. Art Power is the only Group 1 winner among the eight British older sprinters and achieved that success in the autumn of his six-year-old campaign on his 15th start at the highest level. Art Power's two subsequent runs in such races yielded form figures of 04, outlining the topsy-turvy nature of the division.

Irish raider Moss Tucker, last season’s Flying Five scorer who is best known as a 5f horse, is the other Group 1 winner from that age group. He was a five-year-old making his 30th start that day to further emphasise modern sprinting’s unpredictability.

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