IF you were looking for feel-good racing results amid some of gloom over the world, you did not have to look far last Sunday.

For racing tales of intrigue and hatching gambles and touches, few trainers would rival the 74-year-old Sir Mark Prescott. There might have been times in recent years when you thought his days at the top table were numbered. Speedier horses, younger, hungrier trainers, more demanding owners, they might not fit the patient Prescott way.