DOWN the decades, the Breeders’ Cup has provided some of the greatest of races on the flat international scene. Arazi in the Juvenile, Giant’s Causeway’s narrow loss to Tiznow, Lester’s return on Royal Academy. Magic moments.

And some of the great commentaries: “the incomparable, the invincible, the unbeatable, Cigar’... Zenyatta’s Classic victory and defeat. Listen again to the 1989 Classic commentary…“Sunday Silence, bracing himself for the oncoming power of Easy Goer”... It’s equine theatre, absent for much of the season.