ALTHOUGH I am not a great aficionado of flat racing, I did have time on my hands to watch the so-called Future Champions Day at Newmarket recently. During the television presentation much publicity was given for that day’s later (un-televised of course) Oxford versus Cambridge race at the course.

Much was being made of this being the first such intervarsity event but, of course, these pundits and P.R. people have very short memories or even complete lack of knowledge