True great or just very good? Lee Mottershead and Keith Melrose argue on Enable

Enable: a true great or just very good?Credit: Edward Whitaker

Is Enable one of the all-time greats or just a very good horse? Lee Mottershead and Keith Melrose debate the two sides of the argument before John Randall delivers his verdict.

Yes, she's an all-time great

Enable is not simply an all-time great now. She first became one three years ago. Since then she has continued racing, winning and occasionally losing, but doing nothing that should have diminished her greatness.

Such has been the length of her tenure at the top, it is easy to forget how breathtakingly brilliant she was in the early days.

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Published on 29 September 2020inFeatures

Last updated 08:53, 30 September 2020

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