THE Racing Post’s Tom Kerr took a lot of the flak over the ill-judged “ban the whip” comment piece but he is an excellent writer, on hard industry research pieces and more soft sentiment stories.

I did like his comparison of the King George to a pair of bootcuts, still resisting the trends in a world of skinny jeans. From someone who prefers not to look a skinny jean in the eye – nor in the thigh – it is great to see the famous race of renown back in fashion with a top-class field today.