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'She'll be a challenge - she's genuinely worried, it's not just her being silly'

Catherine Macrae visits Richard Morgan-Evans's pre-training yard in Newmarket

Richard Morgan-Evans: pre-trainer of leading Arc hope Alpinista and recent St Leger hero Eldar Eldarov
Richard Morgan-Evans: pre-trainer of leading Arc hope Alpinista and recent St Leger hero Eldar EldarovCredit: Edward Whitaker

It takes a certain character to chuckle as a horse launches itself across a stable while you are only half on board. For Richard Morgan-Evans it is just another Tuesday.

The filly has pulled the same trick three days in a row and shows no sign of changing her ways yet, despite needing to nimbly leap off the yearling's back to avoid serious repercussions, the former jockey remains unconcerned.

"I think she's got a goldfish brain," he jokes.

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