Leading English jockey Alan Munro added yesterday's Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth II Cup to his English and Irish Derby triumphs and then announced the shock news that he would take a sabbatical from racing at the end of this season.
Munro, 33, still on a high after his short-head victory on Industrialist, has been here since the 1991-92 season and prior to that was in racing from the moment he left school.
Yesterday he revealed: 'I'm not quitting racing. I love horses, I love riding and I love the competition.
'But I'm 33 now, I've been doing this for many, many years and I just feel the time is right to take a sabbatical, a kind of timeout if you like.
'I don't know what I'm going to do or for how long, but whatever it is I think I will still be based in Asia.
'I figure I can take a year off or maybe two and still come back to riding when I'm 35.' Munro has never been your typical racing character and has always pursued a number of interests outside racing.