He is the best that I have seen, and he should be the standard setter for the early part of the campaign.

The superstar of French National Hunt racing, Il Est Francais makes his comeback in the Prix Murat at Auteuil this Saturday.

There is a chance of course that Grecian Storm is a class above this field, but it is not as certain as the market prices would suggest.

It would have been impossible to imagine what he might go on to achieve at that stage of his career, but it does highlight the value....