‘If I had the horse I would do it once more – however Kauto was a one-off’

You’ve got already examine some extraordinary campaigning this week that looks like it belongs in a wholly totally different period, but the present British champion coach achieved arguably his most memorable feat with a marketing campaign mapped out alongside related strains.

It was a run of victories that by no means threatened to match the double-digit exploits of the likes of Monksfield and Sea Pigeon for size, however for sheer sustained high quality at an exalted degree (six wins from six runs, together with 4 Grade 1s, at a dizzying vary of distances, and even one handicap for good measure), Kauto Star’s 2006-07 season takes some beating.

Do not run away with the concept, although, that this was a season of plain crusing for the horse who got here to be considered the best chaser of the century (to this point). By way of uncooked capacity, he was not often threatened, however there was drama alongside the best way as he developed his personal typically alarming methodology of negotiating obstacles at essential factors in his races.