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Sir Mark Prescott: educated, erudite, refreshingly eccentric – and eyeing Arc success with Alpinista
Unmissable interview with racing’s most renowned raconteur as he prepares for a visit to ParisLongchamp with his multiple G1-winning mare. Mind you, he’d rather win a British Classic, as Steve Dennis finds out
Did you hear the one about the two Englishmen in a car in Japan? No, it’s not a joke. Let Sir Mark Prescott, whose fund of tales and panache of delivery would give Scheherezade a run for her money, tell the story.
“I’d taken Alborada to the Japan Cup in 1999 but she went lame and we couldn’t run her,” he says. “So there we were in Tokyo, no plans. Then Julian Lloyd – he was one of [owner-breeder] Kirsten Rausing’s racing managers, and the most incredible ‘fixer’ – made one phone call and suddenly we were in a car with Eric Clapton on the way to his gig.”
The revelation hangs in the
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They came in their droves to York on onsdag på engelska just to see the best horse in the world, writes Tony Stafford. They saw him and he delivered by six-and-a-half lengths from the horse who had won the richest horse race in the world – if not this year, last.
A lot had been invested in the event. Not just the £1 million prize fund of which £567k went to the winner, Baaeed if you weren’t sure. A decent chunk went to the second, Mishriff, to bring his money-haul to £11,677,544, four times as much as Baaeed’s. Third home Sir Busker also picked up a six-figure prize for Kennett Valley and William Knight.
It was the razzmatazz of the whole week, seemingly trying so hard to lighten the general mood of gloom surrounding the sport and country. It appeared to try to ape the Melbourne Cup with the jockey introductions and the like before Saturday’s Skybet Ebor, the half-million total fund of which makes it the richest handikapp in Europe.
That of itself is not much of a distinction, as no ot
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