Garner overcomes broken collarbone to win prestigious Grade 1 chase at Saratoga

When you have shared a weighing room with Sir Anthony McCoy and Richard Johnson you might learn a thing or two about pain thresholds, so Tom Garner wasn't going to let a broken collarbone stop him taking one of the biggest rides of his career last week.

It is an injury that would rule most sportsmen and women out for at least six weeks but jump jockeys are infused with an ignorance to stretchers, casualty and ambulances, and it was that fortitude that allowed Garner - best known in Britain for his association with Oliver Sherwood's Grand National-winning Lambourn yard - to partner Winston C to victory in the Grade 1 New York Turf Writers Cup at Saratoga on Thursday.

Garner had secured his first top-level triumph on the ex-Harry Fry-trained gelding at the track a month earlier in the A P Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase and would not have missed the spin for anything, evidently.