Jeremy Noseda: 'I've found peace of mind again and appreciate what's important'

Things are winding down at Shalfleet Stables. There are a couple of horses to get ready for Royal Ascot and two hungry Labradors to feed, but Jeremy Noseda is rather less busy than normal and seemingly enjoying the change of pace.

Right now he's in the kitchen dismantling a chicken carcass on behalf of the dogs, with the same kind of vigour he used to reserve for tearing strips off troublesome hacks, but there's an inner peace about the process that suggests impending retirement is suiting the trainer who in a long and colourful career sent out 14 winners at the highest level of world racing.

Throw in the host of 'galacticos' the ardent Spurs fan oversaw in his time as assistant trainer in the early years of Godolphin's existence and you may wonder why such a gifted individual is calling time on his career at the age of just 55; but "times change", as Noseda readily acknowledges, and for some of us times change more rapidly and dramatically than others.