Enable and Dettori light up Louisville as Horse of the Year debate intensifies
A Churchill Downs Breeders’ Cup always throw up something special and the 35th edition of the grandiosely titled World Championships continued that custom. Here Richard Forristal, our man in Louisville, examines some of the myriad talking points from the star-spangled two-day extravaganza in Kentucky
Star of the show – Enable
She was the one champion whose impenetrable reputation would have survived a defeat but we all wanted Enable to enhance her legacy by becoming the first Arc winner to follow up at the same year's Breeders’ Cup.
Where Dancing Brave first failed for Khalid Abdullah in 1986, she triumphed in glorious fashion, defying first being tightened up by Hunting Horn and then being coerced wide by Magical. She and Magical then settled down for an epic joust.
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