THE ‘50 great two-mile chasers’ series that the Racing Post ran recently was a fascinating read. It marked some outstanding feats by steeplechasing’s sprinters in some excellent essays.

You will always be able to argue with the presence or absence of any (would-be) member of any such finite grouping, and with the position of any member therein, but you would have thought that Bobsline would have been higher than 50th of 50, and that Buck House would have been higher than 46th.