IT has become a pretty rare thing in racing that the anticipated event lives up to the actual contest. And more often than not, we don’t see champions truly tested. Sea The Stars’ Arc and Frankel’s Guineas and Juddmonte International were three in recent times that gave truely wow moments as Arazi’s Breeders’ Cup win had also done many years ago.

Happily that did occur last Saturday night when the starting gates opened for the Breeders’ Cup Classic and Life Is Good, a previous Breeders’ Cup winner and top-class miler, was committed to go and test Flightline.