'The sad fact of British racing is ambitious owners have to look abroad'

There is a healthy intensity about James Ferguson. Sat in his no-frills office at the centrally located Saville House Stables in Newmarket, the young trainer has shoehorned an hour into his tight schedule for our meeting and it is soon clear there is little chance of overrunning.

Ferguson's father John was always a clear communicator during his days as Godolphin chief executive and it is impossible to ignore the similarities as his 32-year-old son expresses his thoughts in a strikingly similar and unambiguous manner.

Bar studying for a degree in real estate at Reading University, racing is all Ferguson has known and all he has ever wanted to know, with training under his own name a long-held ambition.