By CHRIS McGRATH
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es, it is now 30 years since the crowning
glory of Dancing Brave's Arc; and nearly
25, since he closed the book on his Turf
career. But the same vitality that had propelled him
into the vanguard of the training profession has
since sustained a no less extraordinary career in
business. And, spry and animated at 77, Harwood
still talks and thinks like a man intent on a final few
chapters to perfect the preceding saga.
Here he is, another meeting just over, at a board-
room table in the office annexed – via an indoor
pool – to his sumptuous West Sussex house. Dap-
per in tie and braces, he retains a full head of silver
Once they have retired, and disappear from the
daily racetrack scene, we tend to draw on the mem-
ories of horsemen much as we do a dusty volume
from a shelf. However reverently, we compress and
confine their stories to the worn binding of the
past. Nobody should make that mistake with
GUY HARWOOD
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