‘It’s been an honour’: sad farewell to racehorse who won £6m and was cheered into retirement by thousands, aged 34

‘It’s been an honour’: sad farewell to racehorse who won £6m and was cheered into retirement by thousands, aged 34

A former racehorse who won £6m, was the subject of two films and was cheered off by 33,000 fans when he retired has died aged 34 after 16 years of happy retirement. Mr Vitality (Vi) had huge success on the track in Hong Kong, but had lived at The Racehorse Sanctuary in West Sussex since 2009. “Old age had caught up with the poor old boy,” yard manager Nigel Dunger told H&H. “Up to this year, he’d looked an absolute picture and I thought he would…