Article: ROLLING BACK THE YEARS - 1967 WHITBREAD GOLD CUP: Mill House win was his finest hour.(Sports)

EVER since Mill House first succumbed to Arkle, the English have taken him to their hearts in a very special manner. We love him most because fate seemed to have dealt so unfairly with him in producing a rival so immeasurably superior to anything ever seen before over fences that even Mill House's outsize heart, lungs and muscles were not big enough.

Finally, when Mill House sprained a tendon and had to be fired on both forelegs, it really seemed as though the big horse's place in the top flight had gone forever.

Here, then, was the background to Saturday's ...

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