'When the horse won my husband shouted so much he lost his voice for four days!'

The road to us winning a race with Call My Bluff at Goodwood in August began with a good bed and an equally good breakfast in Lambourn more than two years earlier.

Horses have been a regular part of my life. I grew up with them and even did an equine sports therapy course with the late, great Mary Bromiley. That concluded in 1997 and was followed by getting a job as a research nurse.

Due to that career move I started concentrating on people not horses. However, the interest in horses and racing was always there, so much so that together with my husband Eamonn – also a nurse – I took a tiny share in a Racegoers Club syndicate that raced Some Day Soon with Jamie Snowden.