“Imagine if AP McCoy had never been born.” Richard Johnson MUST have mused over that possibility. He’s only human. I would have done if I was him. Thing is, if AP wasn’t around we would now be eulogising about RJ. He would probably be chasing his 4,000th winner and his umpteenth jockeys’ title. Instead, while …[Read More]
SOME of my earliest Cheltenham Festival memories centred around the glorious failure of one man to ride a winner. Peter Scudamore was my favourite jockey when I was a youngster. He may have lacked the riding style and panache of John Francome but he always looked like he was giving 100% on his horse. I …[Read More]
IT’S slightly strange how we become attached to certain racehorses. I have no idea why I loved Ben Nevis, so much so that I backed him to win the Grand National in 1980 as a young lad. Likewise, there was Barton Bank. He seemed to be around for years in the 90s and I willed …[Read More]
ONE of the beauties of racing is the way that some horses just seem to go on forever. Season after season they stretch every sinew in the quest for glory. Take Kauto Star: I can’t quite imagine national hunt racing without him. One horse who fell into this category was the wonderful warrior Go Ballistic. …[Read More]
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