WE will miss seeing Noel Fehily riding, seeing his familiar crouch on a horse and knowing that he is probably in the correct position on the track and in the race. It was good, however, that he was able to bow out on his own terms and that he was able to go out on a winner at Newbury last Saturday.

It wasn’t quite a victory lap, he didn’t have the luxury of standing high and waving to the crowd through the final furlong. Not that that would be Fehily’s way anyway. Get In The Queue may have been a 1/3 shot in the Goffs UK Spring Sale Bumper, but Harry Fry’s horse needed to be ridden all the way to the line by Fehily, just to be sure to be sure.

The Corkman rode seven winners at the Cheltenham Festival, including Rock On Ruby and Buveur D’Air in the Champion Hurdle and Special Tiara in the Champion Chase, and he won a Henry VIII Chase on Altior and he won two King Georges on Silviniaco Conti. He was always a thoughtful jockey, a thinking jockey.

Quiz time

Q. What unusual feat have Martin Brassil’s Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle winner City Island and Oliver McKiernan’s recent Naas listed novices’ hurdle winner Gallant John Joe both achieved this season?

A. Both have won two maiden hurdles. (Well, kind of.)