Graham Buddry remembers the mighty staying hurdler

If only is probably the saddest phrase in the human lexicon, normally describing a litany of lost chances. We’ve all been there, usually on a small scale but once or twice a life-changing path is taken when “if only…” could have taken us somewhere far better.
On exceptionally rare occasions it can work the other way around and the subject of this article is one of those occasions.
Big Buck’s was French bred, born on 16 April 2003 at the stud of his owner, Henri Poulat, and was sired by Cadoudal, the ...