Robin Oakley

Kitty’s Light is the horse of the year

In the last three triumphs alone he galloped a total of 14 miles while jumping 77 fences

Jack Tudor riding Kitty's Light (red/blue) clear the last to win the bet365 Gold Cup Handicap Chase at Sandown. Credit: (Photo by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images 
issue 06 May 2023

John Trotwood Moore, one-time State Librarian of Tennessee, was a racist and defender of the Ku Klux Klan. But in the saying for which he is best remembered he did get one thing right: ‘Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilisation we will find the hoofprint of the horse alongside it.

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