This time we’re looking at the exploits of a French and European champion from the early 1920s who then, it could be argued, became the first world champion.

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His life was tragically short, his death mysterious. But the legend that was Phar Lap still transformed the Australian and then US racing scene in the early 1930s.

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One of the more recent horses that we'll be looking at, Frankel's amazing exploits on the racecourses of Great Britain are still fresh in the minds of many who saw him.

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In this episode we’re going to France in the 1930s and a mysterious horse who passed so quickly into and out of the racing scene that he is unknown or forgotten by the majority of racing aficionados. Yet there are some who swear he could have been the best ever.

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A look at Sea-Bird, the legendary French colt who lit up the European racing scene in the mid-1960s.

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