Yeats is the only horse to have ever won four Gold Cups in a row. The Aidan O'Brien-trained stallion won Royal Ascot's signature race in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, a feat that only Sagaro (1975, 1976, 1977) and Stradivarius (2018, 2019, 2020) have come close to matching.