THE latest edition of the World’s Best Racehorse Rankings came out last week to not a great deal of fanfare, and, as is the nature of these things in a fast-moving environment, will have required revision almost immediately.

There are no arguments from this quarter about Ghaiyyath’s position as the best active horse in the world (on 127 with WBRR), but Battaash’s absence from the list altogether underlines that the international handicapping organisation continues to have problems with assessing wider-margined sprint winners who ran fast on the clock.