FUTURA, winner of the Queen’s Plate and the J & B Met and officially the best horse in the country, has been moved from Philippi trainer Brett Crawford to Justin Snaith across the road after a spectacular row between the four-year-old’s joint owners.

Few people knew there was even a hint of a rift until Snaith Racing issued a statement saying that two of the owners were presented with an ultimatum by the third partner that “they either buy him out or sell to an overseas buyer, failing which he would force Futura to be sold by public auction within a matter of days’’.