My father, Roger Barklam, who has died aged 87, was a broker who specialised in racehorse insurance and whose most notable coup was to devise a bespoke policy for the US thoroughbred Secretariat, widely regarded as one of the greatest racehorses ever.
Secretariat won the Triple Crown of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes in the US in 1973, but concerns about his fertility emerged when he went to stud. He failed to meet the criteria of the usual insurance policies designed to cover the possibility of mares failing to become pregnant, and the owners found themselves in a quandary.
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