'I started copying Steve because you looked old-fashioned if you didn't'

While Sir Gordon Richards pioneered the sort of single-minded determination, high levels of fitness and improved social status we see in jockeys today, there is one part of the modern-day rider's armoury that was completely alien in Richards' era – the willingness and ability to lead a race from start to finish.

Indeed, during Richards' entire career and for more than 30 years after it, just one horse made all the running to win the Derby at Epsom – and even then it was seemingly a complete accident.

After 15-time Classic winner Joe Childs made all on Coronach in 1926, he is said to have remarked: "The bastard ran away with me." In his memoirs he merely said: "I consider that Coronach was a coward."