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The turf

Why jockeys prefer riding on the Flat

More and more jockeys are abandoning jump racing

30 May 2015

9:00 AM

30 May 2015

9:00 AM

Getting to Goodwood last Saturday was an achievement in itself. On the Bank Holiday weekend I calculated a cross-country route from Oxfordshire to avoid the traffic. All went well until my satnav threw a hissy fit at my variations. Its female voice, that of an eager hockey mistress contemplating a career change to dominatrix, instructed me to take the fourth turning off a roundabout that possessed only three.

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