Jonathan Powell remembers the wonderful legacy left by trainer John Dunlop

JONATHAN POWELL
Few races of significance in Europe and further afield failed to attract the attention of the buccaneering trainer John Dunlop who died earlier this month at the age of 78.
In delivering almost 3,600 winners in a career stretching over 47 years he was a pioneer, most notably in sending his horses from Castle Stables in Arundel to pursue prizes on a number of continents.
It began in the 1970s with a successful annual raid each winter to Cagnes Sur Mer in the South of France under the eagle eye of his l...