How old was See More Business at the time of his retirement?

Foaled on April 26, 1990, See More Business was one of the outstanding steeplechasers of his generation and was credited by now 14-time champion trainer Paul Nicholls as the ‘foundation’ of his training career. In his heyday, the son of Seymour Hicks was awarded a Timeform Annual Rating of 182, which, a decade after his death on July 24, 2014, places him co-thirteenth on the list of highest-rated steeplechasers since the early sixties, alongside the likes of triple Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Best Mate.

Owned by Nicholls’ former landlord, Paul Barber, originally in parthership with John Keighley and later with Sir Robert Ogden, See More Business won 18 of his 36 starts under Rules – 3-3 over hurdles and 15-33 over fences – and amassed just over £700,000 in total prize money. The biggest victory of his career came on March 18, 1999, when, wearing first-time blinkers, he was all out to beat 66/1 by a length in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

By that stage of his career, he had already won the King George VI Chase once, in 1997, and would so again on Boxing Day 1999, with an impressive, 17-length victory over Go Ballistic, again. See Your Business continued racing well into his dotage, winning for the final time at Wincanton on February 15, 2003, as a 13-year-old. He ran his last race in the John Hughes Rehearsal Chase at Chepstow the following December, finishing a distant fourth, and was retired early the following year, at the age of 14.