Polly Pott

When Ben Pauling agreed last summer to train a couple of Flat horses for Andrew and Jane Megson who already had their string of jumpers with the Cotswolds-based 39-year-old, he had no idea what was coming. Pauling says, "Harry Dunlop had told them that he wasn't going to be training next season. The conversation went along the lines of, 'We've got a nice, big, backward 2-year-old colt who needs gelding and then he should be lovely for next year. And we've got a little filly who has run well to...