BRIAN MEEHAN was last night reflecting on a remarkable year that began with a move into one of England’s top stables and ended with a Breeders’ Cup title.

Four horses will bid to join the ranks of the Breeders’ Cup elite on Saturday and become dual winners at horse racing’s world championship.

SEB SANDERS believes St James’s Palace Stakes hopeful Bachelor Duke is in the sort of form that took him to Classic glory on his last start.

Nureyev, sire of such stars as Peintre Celebre, Miesque and Spinning World, has died.