No grey hairs and plenty of spirit left in the Derby's oldest surviving winner

It's lashing down but there he stands in the middle of his paddock, like a smoker contentedly puffing away in a pub garden while everyone inside thinks they must be quite mad.

Erhaab is a gentleman of simple pleasures, the chief one being fresh air and open space.

"If he doesn't go out, he's in a proper bad mood - and he'll let you know," says Tim Varey, for whom looking after the 1994 Derby winner is the first and last job on his rounds every day.