Greats go down fighting

THEY say old soldiers fade away but two old icons embossed already -imposing legends yesterday with their stubborn refusal to kneel meekly in supplication to a new generation’s torchbearer.

For almost three miles, Kauto Star and Denman made Father Time kick his heels as they took the fight to the rest of the field in general and Long Run — a horse almost half their age — in particular.

It was stirring stuff but, in the end, the guard did change.