'If you're not trying to land a touch, you're not playing the game properly'

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Grant Tuer's decision to branch out from the blood, sweat and tears of farming for the haphazard world of training racehorses might bring to mind frying pans and fires, but after a morning at his North Yorkshire yard it is crystal clear he knows exactly what he is doing.

A sucker for punishment perhaps, but Tuer is a man with a plan and his career-best 33 winners so far in 2021, along with 39 full boxes and the hum of JCB diggers working away at his Northallerton base, is a sure sign that plan is taking shape.