SAXON WARRIOR

WE witnessed the performance of the year last week as Cracksman destroyed the field when winning Ascot’s Champions Stakes by seven lenghts.

His new mark of 130 puts the John Gosden-trained Frankel colt 2lb ahead of his dual Classicwinning stablemate Enable (128), who bagged the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe this season.

I watched Cracksman narrowly win the Derby trial at Epsom in the Spring meeting. Despite being highly rated at the time, I did not get the sense he was a superstar in the making.

He’s improved enormously in the second half of the season and it’s a crying shame he wasn’t given the opportunity to race in the Arc against Enable.

I’ve no doubt he will beat her and everyone else next season.