Ardross, Bosra Sham, Commander In Chief, Diminuendo, Light Shift, Love Divine, Oath, Oh So Sharp, Reference Point, Slip Anchor, Wince and of course the mighty Frankel – horses that will forever be spoken of in the same breath as top trainer Sir Henry Cecil. With the millions involved in Flat racing, and the characters and celebrities who are drawn to it, no wonder some trainers come across as distant and aloof. Not so Henry Cecil. Always ready to stop for a word or two, he’d take the time to sign an autograph book or chat to an excited punter. It was this, and his obvious love for the horses he trained that made him so popular with both the public and the racing elite alike. “He’s a lovely man, a people’s man. He has an important job and could be as up in the clouds as he wants to be, but he’s very approachable, very understanding,” said Frankel’s jockey Tom Queally on hearing of his knighthood two years ago. At first glance, Eton educated Cecil might have appeared a little aristocratic. He had an obvious thing for good clothes, loved shopping and was by his own admission ‘vain’. Even so, [...]
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