Five-year-old Halicarnassus landed a valuable prize of £277,778 when winning the G2 Bosphorous Cup at Veliefendi in Turkey on Thursday evening.
The Cape Cross entire won his first Group event as a juvenile, his victory in the G2 Superlative Stakes at Newmarket coming on only his second racecourse appearance. Since then he has won the Listed Cocked Hat Stakes, G3 Rose Of Lancaster Stakes and G3 Dubai Duty Free Arc Trial (at three) and has finished runner-up in the G3 Geoffrey Freer Stakes on his most recent start prior to his trip to Turkey.
Trained by Mick Channon, Halicarnassus was bred by Gilly McCalmont’s Yeomanstown Lodge Stud from the Relaunch mare Launch Time. His eight wins and seven placings take his career earnings to £558,958. He joins the outstanding Sea The Stars, Crystal Capella, Recharge and Mac Love on the list of Group winners sired by Cape Cross in 2009.
