A look back to the topsy-turvy career of a top hurdler

Those who have owned, or even dreamed of owning a racehorse or even just a small share of one always start with the heady dream that it might, just might, be a champion, a world beater. Later reality, almost always, reveals the severe limitations of the beast in question with perhaps a modest win in lowly company the best that can be achieved, if that.
Many years ago I had miniscule shares in a string of racehorse with Martin Pipe and most were of very modest ability indeed. One, Tri Folene, proved to be quite a prolific winner of mino...