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The turf

Jump-racing bids farewell to the great John Ferguson

The man who commutes between Newmarket and Dubai will be missed but he has no regrets

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

Writing a Turf column before the Cheltenham Festival, as the Spectator schedule requires, which you are reading only after the four-day jump-racing bacchanal has concluded, was a problem. I could neither revel in the moments of glory some equine fighter pilots will have enjoyed nor reveal hard-luck stories behind others who did not make it.

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