n 1946, Winston Churchill came up with a phrase to describe the particular symbiosis between the US and Britain. He called it the ‘special relationship’. It is a description that applies to Kathryn Sharp and Justin Nicholson’s house in Saratoga Springs, a city in New York State and the heartland of US horse racing. With its pastel-painted timber frontage, deep, lacy-edged veranda and neat picket fence, the 1880s house looks quintessentially American. The interior
