Jason Hart: 'I want to be challenging to be champion jockey. If you don't aim high in this game you're only going to go one way'
David Carr catches up with a rider daring look to beyond the Nunthorpe Stakes at York
If she can do it, why can't he? If Highfield Princess can conquer the highest heights, why not the man who has been on board for virtually every step of her incredible journey?
Jason Hart allows himself the thought as he savours his one luxury of the day, a latte at Costa in Malton.
Conversation, of course, is dominated by the wondermare housed across town at John Quinn's yard, the one-time 57-rated handicapper who won three Group 1 races in the space of a remarkable four weeks last year. Will she repeat that hugely emotional triumph in the Nunthorpe at nearby York 12 months on and prove herself again the fastest horse in Europe?
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- 'It was the best race I ever rode and I was very proud of it - but Sheikh Hamdan thought it was terrible!'
- Aidan O'Brien: 'The weirdest, strangest, most impossible things can happen in racing and in life'
- James Fanshawe: 'It's easy to go in your shell and grumble that things aren't fair - but you have to remember how well you've done'
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