From Mill Reef to Frankel, relish the glories of Greenhams past with old friends

Don't believe what the mind coaches tell you; sometimes it's better to live in the past.

If your memories wind back as far as the 1970s, then you'll still see deep in your brain's recesses those days when the Greenham Stakes was awaited like the first cuckoo's call and was as redolent of spring as a freshly mown lawn.

We were waiting to find out if Mill Reef and Wollow had 'trained on' from two to three, whether Grundy had retained the flashy brilliance of his juvenile year. Maybe those Greenhams past just told us Ian Balding and Henry Cecil had Mill Reef and Wollow ready to put on a show while Peter Walwyn's star, still suffering the setback of a kick in the head from a stablemate, was not the finished article that glorious summer of 1975 would bring.