'Sitting in that cell for 24 hours, I was thinking it was the end of my career'

Such has been jockey Sean Quinlan's rise to prominence since he moved north, Boris Johnson might consider using him as a poster boy for the government's much-maligned levelling up policy.

While Whitehall delivers its strategy at a pace similar to that of a four-mile staying chaser, Quinlan has been busy making a difference to his career after leaving the south behind nearly six years ago. Brian Hughes aside, there's no-one higher up the northern pecking order than the soon-to-be 38-year-old.

This has been no overnight success for Quinlan, rather years of hard graft to reach the level he's operating at now. But since winning the 2019 Scottish Grand National on Takingrisks, he has not looked back.