The top owner who disappeared from a plane over the English Channel

Here is a great tale of a larger-than-life businessman, a phenomenal horse and a deadly mystery that is still baffling people nearly a century later.

Imagine that Richard Branson had owned Frankel, only to disappear inexplicably before his most famous horse hit the heights. And to this day people are still wondering what really happened to him.

Except that it was jumpers which tickled the fancy of Alfred Loewenstein, a banker born in Brussels who lit up high finance in the 1920s and was reckoned at one point to be the third richest man in the world.