TRAINERS Colin McBratney and Ian Ferguson were among the sponsors at the Ratcheugh Racing Club point-to-point in Alnwick, Northumberland last Sunday and Colin explains how they became involved.

“Clare Moore, who owns The Jazz Singer, was at Down Royal for the festival last month and when chatting to Ian and me, told us how difficult it was for their local point-to-point to get sponsorship. Her son Christopher is involved with the Ratcheugh meeting so we said we’d like to help if we could, and so found ourselves sponsoring a race apiece.”