http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/horse_racing/9359587.stm
By Frank Keogh
Every sport has its champions, and then there are those who transcend what has been achieved before them.
People like sprinter Usain Bolt or heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali.
On Saturday, horse racing will have the chance to salute not one, but three of its greats.
The outstanding Kauto Star seeks an unprecedented fifth consecutive win in jump racing's mid-season championship, the rescheduled King George VI Chase at Kempton.
His trainer Paul Nicholls has established himself as a man who plunders big races like few before him.
And the man aboard will be AP McCoy, the first jockey to be voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year and riding Kauto Star in the race for the first time after an injury to regular partner Ruby Walsh.
Every champion has young pretenders on their tail and this is no different.
Since Kempton Park was redeveloped with an all-weather flat track, as well as the jumps circuit, and we reopened in March 2006, Kauto Star is the only horse to have won the King George, said Kempton clerk of the course Brian 'Barney' Clifford.
But there are a few willing to take him on this year. Maybe they think he's won four but he may now be vulnerable.
By Frank Keogh
Every sport has its champions, and then there are those who transcend what has been achieved before them.
People like sprinter Usain Bolt or heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali.
On Saturday, horse racing will have the chance to salute not one, but three of its greats.
The outstanding Kauto Star seeks an unprecedented fifth consecutive win in jump racing's mid-season championship, the rescheduled King George VI Chase at Kempton.
His trainer Paul Nicholls has established himself as a man who plunders big races like few before him.
And the man aboard will be AP McCoy, the first jockey to be voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year and riding Kauto Star in the race for the first time after an injury to regular partner Ruby Walsh.
Every champion has young pretenders on their tail and this is no different.
Since Kempton Park was redeveloped with an all-weather flat track, as well as the jumps circuit, and we reopened in March 2006, Kauto Star is the only horse to have won the King George, said Kempton clerk of the course Brian 'Barney' Clifford.
But there are a few willing to take him on this year. Maybe they think he's won four but he may now be vulnerable.
