GOOD news too that, as revealed in The Irish Field last week, the link between Sheikh Mohammed and John Oxx has been re-established.

Oxx trained many horses for Sheikh Mohammed during the maroon and white days, but the metronomic march of the Godolphin blue all but squeezed out the maroon and white in Europe (except for some small respites) and saw the Sheikh Mohammed/Godolphin horses housed with the Godolphin trainers, Saeed Bin Suroor and Mahmood Al Zarooni and, latterly, Charlie Appleby.