Parting is not such sweet sorrow for trainers whose horses head to new yards

The racehorse is a moveable beast.

While most owners tend to leave a horse in the care of the same trainer throughout the time of that ownership, others take a different approach.

Famously volatile was the late Daniel Wildenstein, an art dealer renowned for taking umbrage against both trainers and jockeys. In 1985 he parted company with Henry Cecil, who ten years later also lost the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed. "He would not come my way and I would not go his, so I knew neither of us would enjoy it," said the Godolphin founder, adding: "I decided it would be better to cut it clean."