One Man's rider Brian Harding back in business with first runner at Alnwick

In April 2017 when jockey Brian Harding quit the saddle he told the Racing Post’s David Carr: “I admire anyone who goes training, but that’s not something I want to do.”

It took three and a half years before Harding partly relented, and at Alnwick on Sunday he will saddle his first runner as a point-to-point trainer when the ex-Keith Dalgleish-trained Senor Lombardy lines up under Lyall Hodgins.

Penrith-based Harding, who runs a breaking and pre-training yard, says: “To be honest it’s a bit of fun that’s happened by accident. We do a lot of breakers for Senor Lombardy’s owner, and Keith said the horse had lost his way and why not send him to us to change his routine and try to rejuvenate him.