Chris Froome increased his lead in the Vuelta a Espa?a during a fifth stage won by Alexey Lutsenko of Kazakhstan. Froome started the day two seconds ahead of a trio of riders and with most rivals inside a minute of him. But after most of them struggled through a hilly stage and then toiled on the first summit finish, Froome looks to be in command of a race that he has finished as runner-up on three occasions. “Looking at the time gaps now, the general classification is definitely taking a bit more shape,” Froome said. “And if you think there’s just a three-kilometre climb to the finish, I can definitely be happy.” Lutsenko left Marco Haller behind at the start of the stage’s final climb, a short but steep trudge up to the Ermita de Santa Lucía church and its views of the Mediterranean Sea. Lutsenko finished the 175.7km (109.1-mile) ride from Benicàsssim to Alcossebre in 4hr 24min 58sec. It was a first grand tour stage win for the 24-year-old Astana rider. Alberto
Authentic Marcus Williams Womens JerseyContador leaves a legacy of cavalier racing and controversy Read more After a small group of breakaway riders trickled across the line, Froome stuck to the wheel of Alberto Contador as the two traded attacks with Esteban Chaves. Froome increased his race lead over Tejay van Garderen to 10 seconds. Nicolas Roche, David de la Cruz, Fabio Aru, Vincenzo Nibali and Romain Bardet all lost even more time to the four-time Tour de France winner. Chaves is third overall, 11sec back. Nibali is now 36sec behind in sixth place, while Aru trails by 49 in seventh and Bardet is 12th at 1:37. Contador remained over three minutes behind. “I’m surprised to see Vincenzo Nibali and Fabio Aru lose some time today – and Romain Bardet, but it’s a long race,” Froome said. The route took riders over four category-two climbs and a category-three, before a push up the final category-three ascent. The sixth stage on Thursday is a 204.4km run from Vila-real to Sagunt including four category-three and one category-two climbsIt is almost a decade since Sir Michael Stoute won the last of his 10 trainers’ titles and seven years since his last success in a British Classic, but when it comes to coaxing the best from a late-maturing horse, Stoute is still the best in the business. Ulysses, a four-year-old who finished 23 lengths behind the winner in last year’s Derby, glided over rain-softened ground to win the Group One International Stakes here on Wednesday, and when Stoute said afterwards that this was the “best performance” of the colt’s career, he was quick to add “to date”. Churchill and Barney Roy, both Group One-winning three-year-olds, headed the market for the feature race on Wednesday at 5-2 and 11-4 respectively, but Ulysses, a 4-1 chance, swept past the pair of them at the furlong pole on the way to a comfortable two-length
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