SO the superlatives were out in force last weekend after the Dubai World Cup. Arrogate’s troubled last to first run astounded his trainer Bob Baffert while the analysts, ratings experts and scribes spent the week coming to terms with the figures the performance warranted and where to place it in the context of great horses we have witnessed.

Baffert began the adulation: “He’s the best I’ve ever seen in my life. I can’t believe he’s won. That’s the greatest horse I’ve seen since Secretariat.”