King Henry finds passage to glory days

For many with a deep-rooted enthusiasm for Flat racing, there can only be one winner of this year’s Vodafone Oaks.

Should Passage Of Time – or indeed highly-progressive ’second string’ Light Shift – manage to provide legendary Newmarket trainer Henry Cecil with an unbelievable eighth victory in the Epsom Classic, the story of the season would be written already and she would be cheered with as much vigour by those who hadn’t backed her as those who had.