Rizeena also retired© Photo Healy Racing
Multiple Classic-winning trainer Clive Brittain has announced his intention to retire at the end of the season.
The veteran Newmarket handler has enjoyed a stellar career, winning every British Classic at least once apart from the Epsom Derby, although he famously sent out Terimon to finish second at 500-1 to Nashwan in 1989.
Asked why he felt now was the right time to call it a day, Brittain, 81, told Press Association Sport: " Old age would probably be a hint, but I want to spend a few years looking after my wife. She's spent 60-odd years looking after me, so I think it's only fair I spend some time looking after her."
He added: "Where there's a beginning there's an end and I just felt the end was nigh. This is the right time to do it.
"I'm retiring with some regret, as I've had some fantastic owners over the years and still have, as well as great staff. I've lived a charmed life."
Brittain enjoyed his first taste of Classic glory with Julio Mariner in the 1978 St Leger, a race he later won with User Friendly, who also completed the English-Irish Oaks double during a glorious campaign in 1992.
He saddled two winners of the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket in Pebbles (1984) and Sayyedati (1993).
Pebbles was perhaps Brittain's greatest ever horse, also winning the Champion Stakes, the Eclipse and the 1985 Breeders' Cup Turf.
Brittain won the 2000 Guineas with Mystiko in 1991 and Terimon enjoyed his day in the sun when claiming the Juddmonte International that year.
He broke new ground for British trainers when Jupiter Island and Pat Eddery lifted the Japan Cup in 1986.
Honourable mentions also go to dual Coronation Cup winner Warrsan, the globetrotting Luso, multiple Group One-winning filly Crimplene and his latest top-level scorer Rizeena.
A Group One winner in the Moyglare Stud Stakes as a juvenile, she won the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot last summer but having failed to reach those heights this season, Brittain has also called time on her career.
He said: "Rizeena won't run again. The decision was left to me and we just felt she hadn't quite reached the heights of last year.
"She's done so much for us in the last couple of years and we decided we wanted her to go out at the top."
Asked what he felt was his greatest achievement, Brittain said: "I think in all my years from being an apprentice jockey, to being a stable lad and then a trainer, I've never had a day unemployed, which I would say is probably quite a feat in itself and I don't think you can ask for more than that.
"I've had a fantastic career with some fantastic horses. The likes of Pebbles and Sayyedati and Rizeena most recently. We've done things we wouldn't even have dreamed about doing at the start, so I have been very lucky.
"Pebbles winning the Breeders' Cup was really out of this world, along with Jupiter Island winning the Japan Cup."
