Jack Andrews successfully following a family tradition

Jack Andrews was never going to manage a low-profile entry to the sport of point-to-pointing. His elder sisters, Gina and Bridget, had made rapid starts a few years earlier, quickly winning novice then senior championships while demonstrating above-average talent in races. Gina, Britain’s reigning women’s champion, has won that title three times, while Bridget is on track to ride out her claim as a conditional jockey.

In contrast, Jack, 18, did not ride a winner in his first season and just four the next, before joining his sisters as a national champion by taking last season’s Fullers-sponsored novice male riders’ award with 13 winners.

Looking back on that tardy start, the siblings’ father Simon says: “Jack wasn’t 16 until mid-April [2014] and we had little left to run or races to aim for by that time of the year. The following year he rode four winners, so we protected his novice status [up to five winners at the season’s start], and then last season he took the title.