My all-time great was Brigadier Gerard, but he has undoubtedly been usurped by Sea The Stars.

Here I am with him at Gilltown Stud July 2010

And here he is in rude health at John Oxx’s, September 2009

Urban Sea, dam of Sea The Stars and Galileo, September 2007

And lest we forget the old champion himself,

here’s Brigadier Gerard & Joe Mercer after the 1971 Champion Stakes

1979 - myself, stallion man Richard & The Brigadier

La Paiva, dam of Brigadier Gerard and great-great-grandaughter of Pretty Polly