Article: The Ashforth Profile: Sense and sensibility; Henry Cecil combines an innate understanding of the horse with a refined ambition.(Sports)

He has been young for a long time. Over 30 years on Newmarket's gallops, but he will never be "Henry Cecil, the veteran trainer". At 57, youth still seems only an elusive touch away; the trick of light on a photograph. Cecil rails at ageing.

Time makes fools of middle-aged men. Cecil, part Peter Pan, has not escaped, but he carries himself with a gentleman's dignity, considerate of other's foibles and of his own.

Born in Scotland, with an English aristocrat's patrician air. Caring and generous, Henry Richard Amherst Cecil is the nobleman the revolutionaries ...

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