Cheleda making hay in pointing field after stepping back from professional ranks

Some names jumps off the page, as did Angus Cheleda's after he stepped upon the racing scene in November 2016.

Before that month was out the then 17-year-old conditional jockey had ridden three winners from five rides for Colin Tizzard, a rapid start made more noticeable by a name that seems to combine a twist of Scottish and a dash of Spanish.

Yet Cheleda was as West Country as Tizzard himself, and like the trainer had been drawn to the horse through the hunting field in the Blackmore Vale. The hedges in that region resemble Becher's Brook circa 1900, and when I put it to Cheleda that you need steel to ride across it, he said: "I had a very good pony."