MY knowledge and love of racing started during my school years when I got a weekend job mucking out with trainer Eddie Lynam.

I stayed on with Eddie after my school years and was his head lad for 10 years. Travelling the world with good horses was the dream and Royal Ascot 2014 is still poignant in my mind. I don’t believe that a yard of Eddie’s size will go to that meeting and take two Group 1s and a Group 2 in the same week again.