Leading Light set for Long Distance Cup Gold Cup winner Leading Light heads a trio of Aidan O'Brien possibles for Saturday's Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup at Ascot. Kingfisher and Sunday's Irish Cesarewitch winner El Salvador are the other Ballydoyle entries in a list of 13, while Dermot Weld has a fascinating contender in Forgotten Rules, who in just two starts to date has won a Punchestown bumper and a Flat race at the Galway Festival. Royal stayer Estimate is the biggest name in the home team. A potential Melbourne Cup bid had been briefly mooted, but Sir Michael Stoute's mare is instead set to bring the curtain down on her career on Champions Day. The Queen's five-year-old got off the mark for the year with a comprehensive victory in last month's Doncaster Cup. Andrew Balding could run Rawaki and Whiplash Willie, while Michael Bell has supplemented Big Orange following his recent course victory. Biographer, Harris Tweed, Pallasator and the John Gosden duo of Flying Officer and Marzocco complete the line-up.
