Unconsidered pacemaker Qirat became the longest-priced winner of a Group One in Britain with a remarkable victory in the Sussex Stakes (1,600m) at Glorious Goodwood on Tuesday.

Trained by Ralph Beckett, Qirat was supplemented by the owner’s Juddmonte for £70,000 (HK$730,000) in a move to introduce a pacemaker into the race for the world’s joint-highest-rated horse, Field Of Gold.

Finishing just 27th of 30 in a Royal Ascot handicap last month, Qirat was conceding 7lb to Field Of Gold and went into the race rated 24lb inferior to his owner-mate.

Sent off $62 on the World Pool and 150-1 in Britain, Qirat went a long way clear with Ballydoyle’s pacemaker Serengeti, taking the outright lead off that rival with 300m left to run.

At that stage, $1.2 favourite Field Of Gold was already struggling to bridge the gap, while Rosallion made giant strides down the outside as he tried to prevent an enormous boilover.

Rosallion closed strongly, but he was never going quick enough to catch Hong Kong-bound Richard Kingscote, who kept up the gallop on Qirat to leave Goodwood totally silenced.

“He’s always threatened to be a good horse, I’ve just never managed to get it out of him until today,” Beckett told Racing Post.

“He was here to set the pace and go 12-second furlongs from the front. That’s what he was here to do and the longer he lasted, the better it was for everyone concerned with him. That was the idea.

“Having watched the clock, I think he achieved that, and the last thing I said to Richard Kingscote before he got on him was, ‘Keep going on this fellow. He isn’t going to stop and he could run really well here’.”

Rosallion finished second ahead of Henri Matisse, while Field Of Gold could only manage fourth.