Age cannot wither them nor custom stale their infinite variety

A life on the racecourse is the only thing he knows.

Sean Quinn’s words on 2007 Duke of Edinburgh Handicap winner Pevensey, then trained by his father John, speak volumes.

Some 3,307 days since his Royal Ascot triumph, and more than five years since his last Flat start, Pevensey, at the age of 14, makes his return to the track under rules for Jacqueline Coward, the latest addition to the training ranks, in an out-of-the-ordinary renewal of the Dorothy Laird Memorial Handicap for female riders.