Rolf Johnson pays tribute to Sir Michael Stoute

Sir Michael Stoute with Queen Elizabeth

If time is relative, then the rate at which it passes depends entirely on your frame of reference. Five minutes of conversation with Sir Michael Stoute is worth an hour of interviewing.
To be fair, you could never tire of talking to Stoute, a private man who has enriched both his own sport and others’ enjoyment of it. And the same could be said of Peter O’Sullevan, John Arlott, Bill McLaren, Peter Alliss, Dan Maskell and Eddie Waring – all of them silent now, yet their ec...