Great races on paper do not always live up to their prior billing on the track but the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes here on Saturday was an instant classic, as Hukum and Westover went head-to-head for the line from the furlong pole.
It was only in the final strides that Hukum and Jim Crowley finally gained the upper hand, inching in front by a head at the line to give Owen Burrows, the winner’s trainer, the most significant success of his career by some margin.
