IT was towards the end of July 2018 that David Egan was at something of a quandary. At the time, he was prominent in the British apprentice jockeys table, vying for the lead with Jason Watson, the pair of them riding plenty of winners.

Egan had won that championship the year before, getting the better of a titanic tussle with Kieran Shoemark which went right down to the last day of the season, when the pair went up to Catterick.