Bow Echo just brilliant for Sussex Stakes glory

Bow Echo’s dazzling turn of foot once again came to fore as he came out on top in an epic renewal of the Visit Qatar Sussex Stakes.

George Boughey’s unbeaten colt was a brilliant winner of the 2000 Guineas before overcoming adversity to register a workmanlike victory in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot and was the 10-11 favourite to complete a famous hat-trick at Goodwood last achieved by the one and only Frankel in 2011.

It was again not an easy watch for odds-on backers, with Bow Echo stuck in the middle of the pack with plenty of work to do as the race began in earnest, but he ultimately went through the gears in stunning fashion in the final half-furlong to get up and beat his old rival Gstaad by half a length.