article_snippet: Winner of the Tingle Creek at Sandown and the Clarence House Chase at Ascot already this season, the seven-year-old was third in the betting at 9-2 for the two-mile championship behind former winners Sprinter Sacre and Sire De Grugy.
article_snippet: The front-running Special Tiara and big outsider Somersby made him work for it, but the Nicholls runner - who was bred by Frankie Dettori - found plenty after the final fence to clinch victory.
article_snippet: Somersby ran a tremendous race to fill the runner-up spot, beaten a length and a quarter.
article_snippet: Progressive horses usually come out on top. '
article_snippet: Nicholls's such a special horse.'
article_snippet: Winning owner Martin Broughton said: 'The anticipation is almost too much, and when you get to the race itself, you just want them to come back safe. '
article_snippet: It's all been Sprinter versus Sire.
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