A REVIEW of the British flat season is incomplete these days without another opportunity to pay homage to the Master of Clarehaven Stables, aka John Harry Martin Gosden.

If you’d fallen asleep 12 months ago and woken up now, you’d not be at all surprised to learn that Enable and Cracksman were able to reprise their successes in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and the Qipco British Champion Stakes respectively, but to suggest that the task in training these two stars to achieve back-to-back successes in two of the most prestigious races in the European pattern was a formality would be hugely wide of the mark.