Cox content with Styles stall

Clive Cox reacted philosophically to a draw saga involving Jimmy Styles for Saturday's William Hill (Ayr) Gold Cup.The Lambourn handler was forced to take stall 15 after connections missed the one-minute deadline to elect a gate."As far as I'm aware, they still all start in a straight line," Cox quipped."My situation was that I had a representative there and we got cut off on the phone as I was returning from working horses at Kempton in the morning. Rules are rules, but it wasn't human error - we were late by five seconds."Hopefully there'll not be unfair bias because of the ground, which I don't imagine there will be. It's not the end of the world because there's plenty of pace either side of us. All's well that ends well."Cox's five-year-old was last seen finishing third to Brave Prospector at Doncaster, having previously occupied the same position in an informative Listed event at Newmarket. The son of Inchinor, now as big as 20-1 with sponsors William Hill, will be ridden by Frankie Dettori.Connections of Zidane went against the general trend by nominating stall one for their seven-year-old. Trainer James Fanshawe said: "We were quite late in choosing our draw, but we thought it wouldn't be a bad thing to have Hogmaneigh nearby us. We're quite happy with the draw and the horse is in very good form."