FORMER amateur rider Raymund Martin, now chairman of the stewards at Down Royal, is taking part in this year’s Paris to Nice cycling challenge. He is being sponsored by the racecourse to the tune of £1,000 as he bids to raise money for the Jockeys Emergency Fund and Injured Jockeys Fund.

Raymund, who partnered the Jim Clements-owned Call Collect to win the 1990 Cheltenham Foxhunters’ Chase and finish seventh in that year’s Aintree Grand National on the same horse, is only too well aware of the dangers facing riders in the sport.