Gosden duo Enable and Cracksman braced for Ballydoyle onslaught
Julian Muscat looks at the potential headline makers
Do you know your sculptors from your composers, your artists from your presidents, your painters from your decorators, your geese from your swans? You soon will: the 2018 Flat turf season is all upon us.
It’s time to distinguish Amedeo Modigliani from Mendelssohn, Gustav Klimt from Delano Roosevelt, not to mention all those Ballydoyle horses named after famous forefathers. One of the joys of the Flat is the brand new cast of Classic contenders who take to the stage every year.
Sifting the spring wheat from the chaff is a truly pleasurable pastime. Come the autumn and Aidan O’Brien will probably be crowned champion trainer in Britain for the seventh time.
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