AS the field lined up to the tapes for the start of the 1964 Derby, Pathe News newsreel showed a confident and smiling Scobie Breasley sitting quietly on his mount, Santa Claus, waiting for the start.

He was a justifiable 15/8 favourite, based on his performance in the National Stakes as a two-year-old and the Irish 2000 Guineas in his first race at three, both races at the Curragh.