Joe Tuite changed the way I viewed racing - and it's been sad to see him suffer

The Premier League returns this week and I'm ready for it, completing my fantasy team with West Ham's new Italian import Gianluca Scamacca.

However, unless the Hammers are involved in a clash with a top-six outfit, I probably won't catch much of Scamacca's debut season, and that's because I'm a snob when it comes to sport.

There was a time when that was the same with racing and if a horse wasn't trained by Aidan O'Brien and sired by Galileo I wasn't interested. Like many, I had been lured in by the legendary Kauto Star, who was bought to be the best, was trained by the best, ridden by the best and was the best.