‘We’re second choice for everybody,’ is the complaint from the trainer, who has been working a ‘best available’ policy
One of the untold stories of each Festival is how hard trainers find it to book a high-profile amateur jockey for the National Hunt Chase or the Kim Muir. It can be a very unrewarding experience, like trying to nail down mercury. You think you’ve got a yes and then yer man’s name turns up in the declarations next to someone else’s horse.
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