Beggy, Kenny, Frankie and Johnny – 2017 was in a different league

Scott Burton reflects on the good, the bad and the downright bizarre

Frankie Dettori savours the moment after winning a record-breaking fifth Arc on EnableCredit: Alan Crowhurst

Epsom ups and downs

The Pat Keating global traveller award

Godolhpin's trio failed to peg back Highland Reel (right)

Highland Reel shrugs off commuter troubles to win the Coronation CupCredit: Alan Crowhurst

Rumour has it that Highland Reel spends so much of the year on the road that Aidan and Anne-Marie O'Brien have redecorated his box and given it to younger brother Idaho.

Highland Reel will have run in four different countries again by season’s end in 2017 and an awayday to Epsom hardly registers on the tachometer for our boy, which was just as well given that the plane scheduled to bring the Ballydoyle horses over on Oaks day endured refuelling problems and the runners only arrived at Epsom a little over an hour before the Coronation Cup.

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Scott BurtonFrance correspondent

Published on 13 November 2017inBritain

Last updated 18:24, 24 November 2017

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