Kingdom unlikely to derail blue train

ON the morning of the Sanford Memorial at Saratoga on August 13, 1919, Willie Knapp, the jockey of the hundred-to-one-shot Upset, turned to trainer Jim Rowe and said, “You know, Mr Rowe, we got a chance to beat Man o’ War this afternoon.”

Rowe was unimpressed with Knapp’s bullish prediction.

“Willie, you’re the craziest man I ever heard of,” he replied.