QUITE remarkably, the accolade of the Longines World’s Best Racehorse in 2016 belongs to a horse that hadn’t even run at stakes level before August but in the space of just two runs the brilliant Arrogate did enough to head the global classifications.

Arrogate tops the standings with a rating of 134 which equals the mark achieved by American Pharoah, who was the world’s top rated runner 2015.