THERE is an eye-catching poster behind Adam West as he sits at his desk at Loretta Lodge stables.
It is a picture of Secretariat’s jockey, Ron Turcotte, having a long, lingering look at the horses behind him, little specks on the horizon in the 1973 Belmont Stakes.
The caption reads: “The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you’ve come.”
Fair to say, West has come a long way in a hurry – 56.87 seconds to be precise.
Because that is all it took for Live In The Dream to win the Nunthorpe Stakes at York and – potentially – change the course of his trainer’s career.