Kyprios Horse: Age, rating, trainer, owner, race record and form

Kyprios was the dominant stayer on the Flat during a stunning six-race winning sequence in 2022 that included the Gold Cup at Ascot and he's back to his best in 2024.

A setback early in 2023 ensured he missed the defence of his crown at Ascot and he was beaten in both starts last year.

He's made an emphatic return to action in 2024, retrieving his Gold Cup crown at Ascot before reclaiming his Goodwood Cup title at the end of July.

Kyprios Owner

Kyprios runs in the famous black and white silks and red cap of Moyglare Stud.

They Moyglare operation are part owners in conjunction with Mrs John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith and Westerberg. The former trio are the Coolmore operation, with Westerberg being the racing operation of Georg von Opel, who has invested in numerous horses with Coolmore in recent years.

Kyprios is a son of Coolmore's late, great stallion Galileo, winner of the Epsom Derby in 2001 alongside the Curragh version and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.  

Kyprios Trainer

Kyprios is trained by the great Aidan O'Brien, the maestro of Ballydoyle. The Irishman continues to redefine the boundaries of possibility in terms of worldwide success in Flat racing.

He bagged his 100th European Classic via Kyprios in the 2023 Irish Derby, while the Tipperary-based handler has won 43 Classics in Britain alone.

He has won the Ascot Gold Cup a record eight times, including four-in-a-row with Yeats from 2006-2009, while his winners since then were Fame and Glory (2011), Leading Light (2014), Order of St George (2016) and Kyprios (2022).

Kyprios Age

Kyprios is a six-year-old entire, now embarked on his fifth season of racing.

Kyprios Rating

Kyprios has an official rating of 128 in Britain.

Kyprios Record

Kyprios has an impressive 12 wins on his record from just 16 starts and has only finished out of the first two twice in his career.

One of those was the Zetland Stakes at Newmarket in 2020 on his second start, while he finished fourth in Lingfield's Derby Trial the following May.

He returned 11 months later and turned his attention to stayers' races with scintillating effect. He won the Vintage Crop at Navan on his comeback and added the Saval Beg Levmoss Stakes at Leopardstown soon after.

From there to Ascot where he justified favouritism in the Gold Cup with a gutsy success from Mojo Star before adding the Goodwood Cup, the Irish St Leger and the Prix du Cadran at Longchamp to complete an unbeaten sequence as a four-year-old.

He got an inner infection on the inside of a joint that threatened to end not only his season, but his entire career, and was only second in the Irish St Leger on his 2023 comeback, before a slender defeat behind Trawlerman in the British Champions Long Distance Cup at Ascot after they'd left a decent field flailing behind them.

As he did in 2022, Kyprios has started this campaign with successes in the Vintage Crop at Navan and the Saval Beg at Leopardstown en route to Gold Cup and Goodwood Cup triumphs.

Kyprios Prize Money

The star stayer has pocketed £1,721,622 in prize money for his connections to date.

Kyprios News

Cementing his status as a staying king with a second Goodwood Cup success, all eyes are now on which race Aiden O'Brien will enter his star six-year-old at Longchamps.

Kyprios is 33/1 to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, though a run in the Prix du Cadran appears the more likely preference.

After the race, O'Brien said: “He’s very special and has so much class. He’s going in second gear the whole time and he stays well. We’ll look at the Irish St Leger next and we have the Gold Cup, which is an important race to him, in mind for next year.”

Any odds displayed were correct at the time of writing and are subject to fluctuation.