He uses the deep footing to his advantage as he takes down one of the titans of the sport.

Hardly a soul, least of all his jockey, knew anything about Pierrot Lunaire. But he ended one of the biggest Grade I winning streaks steeplechasing has ever seen.

“I had never ridden the horse in a race, which is nothing new, he just shipped over,” said rider Chip Miller. “Everyone knew about as much about the horse as I did—zero.”