Simon Holt

Momentous race commentaries resound from the past like chiming bells, etched into our consciousness alongside the visual recollection of the great pinnacles of this sport. Who can forget the inimitable Sir Peter O'Sullevan's call of "the mare's beginning to get up" that accompanied the last surge of Dawn Run in the 1986 Cheltenham Gold Cup? Or Graham Goode's cry as they turned for home in that year's Epsom Derby that "Dancing Brave is on the extreme left starting to motor, but oh so much to do!" Or 10 years later...