Graham Buddry remembers the great Flyingbolt

Strangely the best horses have often been neighbours in the same stable. Pendil and Bula, Night Nurse and Sea Pigeon, Silver Buck, Bregawn and Wayward Lad, Desert Orchid and Barnbrook Again, Kauto Star and Denman springing most readily to mind. Each had their own ardent supporters claiming superiority yet the best double act was Arkle and Flyingbolt where debates to their particular merits were even more fierce.
Arkle is acknowledged as the best chaser the world has ever seen yet many inside the Dreaper yard firmly believed that Flyingbolt w...