Tell us about how you got interested in racing and a bit of background about your interest in the sport at a younger age

My horse racing interest was piqued at an early age, watching the ITV Seven with my dad on Saturday afternoons. I was captivated by those strenuous displays of jockeyship from the confines of his armchair when the money was down… as it invariably was! This bonding culminated in our annual mid-March pilgrimage to Prestbury Park, which stretched for almost 20 years together from the early 1990s onwards.