DAVID Medbury was called to mind at the weekend when I learned that Americain was off to a flying start at stud, siring his first winner at Woodbine in Canada, a two-year-old filly named Folk Magic from his first crop.

I recall travelling to the Melbourne Cup in 2010 and sharing some of that journey with Dave who was responsible for the sale of the subsequent winner of ‘the race that stops a nation’.