IMAGINE that you go to the biggest awards night of the year in flat racing, and the horses you trained take home five of the prizes on offer. In the process you cap the achievement of Sheikh Mohammed who won two of the others, while the remaining award went to Prince Khalid Abdullah, owner-breeder of the champion whose career you are responsible for yet another year.

Such was the amazing feat achieved by John Gosden at the 29th Cartier Awards in London on Tuesday night, awards which he so aptly described as being like the Baftas and Golden Globes rolled into one. He could equally have said they are the equine world’s equivalent of the Oscars or the Grammys. They represent all that is best about our industry, and therefore are the most coveted awards on offer.