Somebody writing on social media this week appealed to Hennessy Cognac to return to the £250,000 Newbury feature (3:00) that it sponsored for sixty years until 2016 because, said the post, “it is dying a slow death”. That’s a bit unkind, but only a bit. It’s true that the line-up doesn’t compare to the glory days of Arkle, Borough Hill Lad, Denman, Many Clouds or Native River, but amongst those that are there it does look ultra-competitive.
