THE TETRARCH WAS SIMPLY A JOY TO BEHOLD

Graham Buddry looks back on the career of an all-time great

Asa new flat racing season gets fully under way we switch our gaze from the big, robust chasers to the slight of build, uncertainof-their-selves two-year-olds where dreams are still alive and the unexpected could be just around the corner.
The subject of this piece only ever ran for that one brief season yet made a mark in more ways than one and is widely considered not just the best two-year-old of the twentieth century but probably the fastest racehorse of all time. With the passing of the years, sadly a horse that few of us...

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