Logician to run in Cumberland Lodge rather than Arc

Speaking on Paddy Power Media’s podcast, From The Horse’s Mouth trainer John Gosden said: "I think the way the ground’s gone, at the moment I don’t want to put him [Logician] through that kind of test right now so he will run in the Cumberland Lodge at Ascot on Saturday."

Stradivarius warmed-up for the Arc by chasing home Anthony Van Dyck in the Qatar Prix Foy, so was the champion trainer pleased with the display?

"Yes because it was run in a typical French Group Two trial fashion in which the ground was quick, times were fast on the day but they went for a nice stroll down the back and round the bend and sprinted down the straight and I thought for a horse whose a Gold Cup winner, he showed great acceleration in the straight going down by half a neck to Anthony Van Dyck who seems to have found his form again and I thought it was a very good trial from both of them and the horses behind.

"The French horses, could never get to them. So I’m very happy with him – he worked well on Saturday with Rab Havlin on board and he’s all ready to go."

Heavy rain in Paris has led to the prospect of testing ground at the weekend - something which concerns Gosden less now than it would have done earlier in the campaign.

"Well we’ve always thought of him as a top of the ground horse but he did somewhat surprise us in the Ascot Gold Cup this year because as I drove to the track on the M25, it looked like it had flooded like a stream and he got there and it was soft ground, he handled it well and won by a good margin. So we slightly revised our viewpoint, it seems that he handles most ground," he admitted.

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