NOW 27 years young, and thankfully still active, Pivotal is the epitome of everything that there is to like about Cheveley Park Stud. Bred and raced by the Thompson’s Newmarket farm, he was a member of the first crop of their resident stallion Polar Falcon (Nureyev), winner of the then Group 2 Lockinge Stakes and rated the best older sprinter in Europe at four when he won the Group 1 Haydock Sprint Cup.

Pivotal didn’t have far to travel to go into training, joining the Heath House Stables of Sir Mark Prescott. He only raced six times, in a time span of 10 months, but during that time he established himself as one of the leading sprinters in Europe. He was ridden in all but the first of his races by George Duffield.