Enable and Authentic could both prove their enduring greatness

In a year where the sporting calendar was torn up, Europe’s most prestigious flat race, The Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe remains anchored to its familiar slot

Frankie Dettori after riding Enable to win The King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Qipco Stakes at Ascot Racecourse on July 25, 2020. Picture: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

No matter how hard we try to put a brave face on things the painful truth is inescapable. Watching sport is a very strange experience at the moment. Stranger still is how 2020 has bent time totally out of joint. Hurling finals in December, The Masters in November.

Racing too has cantered into the disruption and the American classic, The Preakness Stakes which goes to the wire in Baltimore tonight is hit both in time and sequence. In normal years this race is the second act in the Triple Crown, the filling in a late spring sandwich either side of the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes.