Robert Sangster

This became the centre of his racing operations in Britain. He first installed Michael Dickinson as the trainer but replaced him with Barry Hills, then Peter Chapple-Hyam and, latterly, John Gosden.

Sangster largely withdrew from buying at the yearling sales, instead selling horses bred at his own studs. He won his final Classic with Rodrigo de Triano in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket in 1992, but saw horses he had bred win major races for other owners, including Dr Devious, who won the Derby in 1992, Balanchine, which won the Oaks and the Irish Derby in 1994, and Carnegie, which won the Arc in the same year.

Sangster enjoyed a lively social life, entertaining lavishly in his box at Royal Ascot. The racing correspondent Julian Wilson once said of Sangster: "His pleasures were boxing, champagne, golf, racing and beautiful women, in no particular order, and often more than one at the same time." Read Less