Hard graft paying dividends for talented Scotsman
Lewis Porteous speaks to the in-form jockey bidding for Newmarket gains
There are 16 entries under the big-race wins tab for Danny Tudhope on racingpost.com. As a guide to his talent it is an accurate one.
The same data also candidly reveals the backbone of his success over the past five years, as all but one of those Group or Graded wins have been for the same trainer: David O’Meara.
Search the same details for O’Meara and the stats are almost identical, Tudhope having ridden 15 of his boss's 19 big-race wins. Before Blue Bajan’s Group 2 success in 2011 neither man had landed a Group-race winner. At Newmarket on Friday they will bid for another.
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