WHEN I was just completing my Intermediate Certificate at school, Dermot Weld was saddling Sutton Place to win the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot. She was his sixth winner at the great meeting, the first having been achieved just five years earlier.

Klairvimy, with Buster Parnell in the plate, won the 1973 King Edward VII Stakes, a year before Highest Trump and Red Alert gave the master of Rosewell House a day to remember when recording a double, scoring in the Queen Mary Stakes and the Jersey Stakes respectively. Johnny Roe was abroad both of the winners.