THE JUMPS STAR TRAINED BY STOUTE

YESTERDAY’S HEROES
Graham Buddry remembers Triple Crown champion Kribensis

If you think of that master Flat trainer, Sir Michael Stoute, and the perennial top owner of blue-blood champions, Sheikh Mohammed, it is difficult to comprehend they had victories at the Cheltenham Festival, yet, as strange as it may seem, they did just that; and more.
Kribensis was a small, dark dappled grey by the Derby winner, Henbit, and great things were expected of him and he delivered, yet not in the way it was expected.
As a two-year-old Kribensis won over a mile at Ayr on 17 September 1986 and then, n...

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