THE big news this week is the Jockey Club’s plans to sell off Kempton, which may well make commercial sense, but I fear the real damage was done when the track’s assets were stripped years ago.

By that, I mean races such as the Queen’s Prize, Rosebery Stakes and Jubilee Handicap, which used to be highlights of the flat season, but have been allowed to drift towards anonymity, making Kempton’s programme look more and more homogeneous.