Budget buy who set rookie trainer on road to Derby and Oaks glory

Michael Bell has trained for many of the biggest names in the sport in his 29 years at Newmarket's historic Fitzroy House and remains one of the strongest brands in town, with Derby winner Motivator and Anglo-Irish Oaks winner Sariska heading his impressive list of Group 1 winners.

However, he would be the first to admit that it might have been a very different story but for Pass The Peace, the 9,500 guineas filly by a first-season sire that he and agent Charlie Gordon-Watson picked up on behalf of Bell's father Brian when running out of options at Newmarket in 1987.

Put into training at two with Paul Cole, where Bell was assisting prior to taking out his own licence, Pass The Peace was an instant success and won four of her five races, including the Cheveley Park Stakes, before kickstarting her young trainer's career in spectacular fashion in the following April's Fred Darling Stakes at Newbury.