If Kiwis revere sporting and racing greats it's about a quarter as well as the Aussies and Americans.
So, we've seen the last of old Sir Slick.
Apparently.
There is a sadness there, sadness that he went out the way he did, struggling to keep up with a field he would have beaten out of sight in his prime and pulled out to be 13 lengths behind the second-last finisher.
There is also a question that perhaps the integrity unit could have stepped in a start or two earlier to suggest that perhaps enough is enough when the wheels had clearly fallen off.