YESTERDAY’S HEROES
Graham Buddry remembers Barry Hill’s problem horse

We have all witnessed racehorses with a cantankerous streak in them, a mind of their own to do exactly the opposite of what is required. More often this takes the form of refusing to line up and jump off or ducking out at obstacles over the jumps. On the Flat, playing up in the paddock, a refusal to go forwards or even enter the stalls is the usual manifestation. Strangely those horses which display such behaviours are often very talented indeed… if they put their minds to it. One was such a handfu...