Racing provides the road to redemption for award winner Adrian Stewart

Adrian Stewart is presented the David Nicholson Newcomer Award by Ed Chamberlin and Michael OwenCredit: Dan Abraham

At the recent Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff awards 29-year-old Adrian Stewart, a formerly feral resident of the troubled Beeston area in Leeds, won the David Nicholson award for best newcomer.

As Stewart's life history emerged it was impossible not be moved by it. Without getting bogged down in the past you have to understand the hellholes in which he has been trapped in order to appreciate the degree to which this tousle-haired Yorkshireman has reinvented himself.

He describes his past as a series of "making my own stupid decisions".

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Alastair DownFeatures writer

Published on 2 March 2018inFeatures

Last updated 19:11, 2 March 2018

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