Mustajeeb ticks all the right boxes in BC Mile

One of the surprising statistics to have emerged in the build-up to Mustajeeb’s run in the Breeders’ Cup Mile is that Dermot Weld has yet to saddle a winner at what is one of the biggest meetings in the world.

Weld has broken down barriers for European trainers in international events, and is most renowned in America for Go And Go winning the Belmont Stakes in 1990.

Along with Alain de Royer-Dupre, he is also the only European to have won the Melbourne Cup, which he claimed twice with Vintage Crop (1993) and Media Puzzle (2002).