In Arkle’s shadow: How novice stars can light up the Cheltenham Festival

The new wave of novice steeplechasers are among the finest since the immortal triumvirate of Arkle, Mill House, and Flyingbolt in the early 1960s, writes Colm Greaves

Shishkin could be the final chapter in the Nicky Henderson trilogy of Champion two-mile chasers

Clusters of greatness tend to emerge in all sports with uncanny regularity.

Maybe it’s the same in all other professions, but an exceptional generation of foreign currency traders or world-class customer care managers will never dwell in the public’s imagination in the same way as those middleweight boxers of the mid-80s or the current trio of male tennis playing geniuses.