Saluting King Kauto

NOW there is no doubt. Kauto Star is a racing legend.

Plenty have been willing to knock him over the past couple of years – but now the doubters are no more after the brilliant nine-year-old raced into the record books by securing his second Cheltenham Gold Cup crown.

The French recruit yesterday became the first horse in the history of the sport to reclaim National Hunt’s blue riband event having lost it, and while records are indeed there to be broken, it takes a thoroughbred of amazing quality to achieve the things he has.