The failure of 2-5 favourite Camelot to win yetsrday's St Leger and so complete horse racing's 'Triple Crown' shows just how difficult a task this is.
Not since the great Nijinsky in 1970 has any horse succeeded in winning the 3 great classics of 2000 Guineas, Derby and St Leger and proved itself to be the best of its generation over distances from 1 mile to nearly 2. Indeed, Nijinsky is the only winner of this prestigious honour since Bahram triumphed in 1935 and these 2 horses are the only successes since the end of the First World War.
Camelot came remarkably close to adding his name to the roll of honour but missed out narrowly to a long shot, Encke, eventually being beaten by only ¾ length. Such is the margin between immortality and failure.
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