'If I ever had a stroke of genius it was bringing him back to a mile for the QEII - that day he was majestic'
Where do we start? That is the first question that needs to be answered on arrival at Luca Cumani's delightful home on the outskirts of Newmarket.
More than 2,000 winners are listed next to his name, with just about every achievement on the racecourse ticked off during his 43 years with a training licence.
With so many to choose from, pinpointing the horses who had the biggest impact on an illustrious career is not going to be easy, but luckily Cumani is home alone, stocked with plenty of Italian coffee and ready to delve deep into a treasure chest of golden memories.
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Copy- 'He was bloody good - people underestimate him but you should talk about him in the same breath as Desert Orchid'
- 'There must have been 50 bookmakers in all and we had 1,000 to 30 with them all. We won fortunes, we won the lottery!'
- John Gosden: 'We were young and if you couldn't have fun in LA in the 1980s you couldn't have fun anywhere - it was a wild town'
- 'I just wish he had been at his best that day because I would have given Frankel a big run for it'
- ‘No-one knew how good she was - but all the owners and quite a few of my friends did. They absolutely smashed into her’
- 'He was bloody good - people underestimate him but you should talk about him in the same breath as Desert Orchid'
- 'There must have been 50 bookmakers in all and we had 1,000 to 30 with them all. We won fortunes, we won the lottery!'
- John Gosden: 'We were young and if you couldn't have fun in LA in the 1980s you couldn't have fun anywhere - it was a wild town'
- 'I just wish he had been at his best that day because I would have given Frankel a big run for it'
- ‘No-one knew how good she was - but all the owners and quite a few of my friends did. They absolutely smashed into her’