Love him or hate him, and I am definitely one of the former, you have to admire him. For those of you unfamiliar with his methods the typical inmate of this stable is a late maturing, middle distance or staying type. At two years old it is given three runs over six furlongs, distance and lack of precocity result in a finish in the bottom half of the field. A year later and qualified for handicaps the horse appears with a lowly handicap mark in a ten furlong handicap, wins, and a few days later wins again – often at an extra furlong, where the even more suitable distance offsets the previous win’s penalty.