The grey eminence: death of a racing legend
14th Nov 2006, 01:51 GMT
Though he was granted the sort of retirement he deserved, long and vital, Desert Orchid has for many years already been the Ghost of Christmas Past. Even as he pranced before the stands at Kempton on Boxing Days, paraded in the minutes before the King George VI Chase - skittish and spry as he was, shimmering in the winter sunshine - he had become a spectre. For in the history of jump racing he was long ago assured immortality. He might as well have been carved out of chalk downland.
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