We have had many suggestions about tributes to the horse. So many of you want to see some sort of memorial to him. I have good news; there is a really fitting tribute to him in the TBA museum at the Sales Complex in Germiston – Jean Jaffee donated a beautiful bronze statue crafted by Stella Shawzin. There are also wonderful pictures on the walls of some of his most memorable wins. The TBA is where he made his first public appearance and it is appropriate that this is where he should be remembered. When you visit the Ready to Run sale in November take a look.

Georgina Jaffee and Vaughan Koster are going to erect a memorial for him at Cheveley as well. I suggested that it would be good to put a huge rock in the rose garden in front of the stallion barn and then put a suitably engraved stone on top of that. Vaughan is also going to put a brass plaque on the wall of the box he lived in while he was there.

Vaughan read me the notes that his late father made shortly after London News was born:- big foal, poor head (roman nose), good bone, strong all round – k-knee off-fore, near-fore off centre. True to form he produced these characteristics in many of his stock but we are yet to find one that inherited his incredible heart. He covered three good size books at Starston, the earliest of which are now yearlings – every stallion will get a really good one, his is most likely to be amongst these. We can only hope.