The gloomy noises off in horse racing over the latest incipient crisis to appear on the horizon can become a little overwhelming at times, but every now and again, a race or a week comes along to remind us all why we caught the bug in the first place.
Thirteen runners, including City Of Troy, this year’s Derby winner, have been declared for the International Stakes on the first afternoon of York’s Ebor meeting on Wednesday, when the track’s richest race of the year will have a double-figure field for only the second time this century, and on paper at least, it has pretty much everything that even the most demanding racegoer or punter could wish to see in a middle-distance top-tier Group One race.
