'It’s all about the little man and the dream' - Eve Johnson Houghton v Coolmore and Godolphin in a Dewhurst you can't afford to miss

It's a Dewhurst suffused with hope. In this wacky world of horses costing more than houses, often more than an entire estate, Zavateri provides some small crumbs of solace that sometimes semi-detached bungalows can evolve into palaces, too.

In a week when millions upon millions of guineas are being tossed around the Tattersalls sales ring like grains of sand, the 2025 Darley Dewhurst Stakes has the potential to restore our faith in the glorious uncertainty of the sport. It's why we fell in love with it in the first place, after all. Money was never supposed to be everything.

Zavateri wouldn't even have been allowed to read Book 1, never mind feature in it. He had to wait for Book 2 and fetched a measly 35,000gns for Newsells Park Stud this time last year. A son of Without Parole, and the first foal of a dam who was an unraced half-sister to an Australian Group 3 winner, he didn't exactly have a phenomenal page.