BRITISH racegoers may have been seeing Pentire for the last time when he galloped to victory in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

The four-year-old will miss the Juddmonte International Stakes at York next month and may well complete what is expected to be his final season aiming at big overseas prizes.

"I would imagine he will be retired at the end of this season and it is possible he won't run again in this country," trainer Geoff Wragg said.

He definitely won't run at York or in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket as he won't be going back to a mile and a quarter - he is so brilliant at a mile and a half that it would seem stupid.

"We have got to sit down and think about what to do with him but races like the Arc, the Breeders' Cup and the Japan Cup are the plan, though he wouldn't run in the Arc if it was very soft.

"As a prep run it is just possible he could run in the Cumberland Lodge at Ascot but that comes very close to the Arc and there are Group One mile-and-a-half races in Germany at Baden-Baden and Cologne.

Pentire is quoted at 6 to 1 co-favourite of three for the Arc with William Hill, from 12 to 1, after landing Saturday's £500,000 showpiece by a length and three quarters and a neck from Classic Cliche and Shaamit.

The colt, beaten just a neck by Lammtarra in the same race 12 months earlier, had to overcome a slow start which left him trailing the field in the early stages.