Graham Buddry remembers the epic race between two of the greatest horses ever, The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur

Graham Buddry
The noble sport of horse racing has been around for hundreds of years and it has evolved during that time to the sport we know and love today.
Those first tentative steps, however, were more often than not simple cases of “my horse is better than your horse” and the result was a match race; simply two horses racing one-on-one to determine which actually was the best. As this developed the concept arose that the matched horses could contest different dist...