The sprint kings on how to train fast horses and being known for one thing

They are the trainers who make horses go whoosh. Certain yards repeatedly excel with the sport's fastest performers. There is arguably no Flat racing division into which people are more pigeon-holed than sprinting. Sometimes the speed specialists do well with slower horses – and there is often no good reason why they should not – but these are trainers we invariably identify with sprinters.

In a recent Racing Post Weekender column Tom Segal spoke in glowing terms of two such trainers, writing: "I think Michael Dods and Eddie Lynam are the best trainers of sprinters in Britain and Ireland at the moment and both continue to do it with relatively cheap horses who have relatively unattractive pedigrees."

Dods and Lynam have indeed shown themselves to be masters of the sprinting field. Dods has landed Group 1 prizes with star fillies Mecca's Angel, a 16,000gns purchase, and the homebred Mabs Cross, who as a four-year-old claimed the Prix de l'Abbaye. As a yearling she was bought back for breeders David and Emma Armstrong after reaching only £3,000 in the ring.