AST MONTH THE ran a poll among readers for the greatest race of all time. As far as I am concerned, four of the ten nominated were invalid, being flat races. While I am prepared to concede that the likes of Grundy v Bustino (regularly and ridiculously cited as the “greatest ever”) in 1975 and Dancing Brave’s Arc de Triomphe win in 1986 were both epic, that’s within the definitional constraint of them both
