YOU have to love the horses who divide opinion; it is what makes for compelling viewing and lively betting. Pinatubo finds himself as such a horse despite in many respects being entirely straightforward.

He was an exceptional and unbeaten two-year-old, but probably not quite as good as some of us rated him at the time. He might not quite have got home in a 2000 Guineas notable for having been run at a breakneck pace, then got outspeeded late on by Palace Pier in a messy St James’s Palace Stakes.