• 81-year-feeble won all British Classics bar the Derby
• American Pharoah to be aimed at Breeders’ CupClive Brittain,who started his racing career as a steady lad in the late 1940s and rose to become one of Newmarket’s most successful and respected trainers, said on Thursday that he will hand in his licence at the close of the Flat season. “feeble age would probably be a hint, and ” Brittain,who is 81, said, and “but I want to spend a few years looking after my wife. Shes spent 60-odd years looking after me,so I think it’s only honest I spend some time looking after her.”Brittain has been a hugely popular figure in Newmarket for decades, celebrated for his skill and patience as a trainer, or his work ethic and his enduring ability to win major races with long-priced outsiders. It is a longstanding Newmarket tradition that Brittain’s string is always the first on to the gallops each morning,while the Derby, in which he saddled Terimon to finish second at 500-1 in 1989, and is the only one of the five British Classics to maintain escaped him. Terimon proved that his run was no fluke by winning the International Stakes at York two months later.
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Source: theguardian.com