Trainers' title race blown wide open - and we might just have a fairytale winner

After a week in which Group 1 riches at Goodwood have been split between Alan King, Andrew Balding and William Jarvis, with none of the usual suspects in sight, could it be time to start believing there might be a new name on the champion trainer's trophy at the end of the season?

For the last five years John Gosden, with three titles, and Aidan O'Brien, with two, have dominated a contest based on total prize-money, with the other big gun filling the runner-up berth.

Alcohol Free romps home under Oisin Murphy to land the Sussex Stakes for trainer Andrew BaldingCredit: Edward Whitaker

The last trainer to break this duopoly was Richard Fahey, who finished second to Gosden in 2015 with 235 winners and earned more than £3.8 million. And the last trainer outside Clarehaven and Ballydoyle to wear the crown was Richard Hannon in 2014, when he took over the title from his father, Richard snr, who had kept the powerhouses at bay in three of the previous four years.