No running each other off the track here - but title battle is no less intense

At least Oisin Murphy and William Buick managed to keep things fairly civil at Nottingham on Wednesday. That hadn't been the case the last time a British jockeys' title race was coming down to the wire in these parts.

During the 1993-94 jumps season Richard Dunwoody and Adrian Maguire fought out a championship battle of epic proportions, which the former aptly described as "too long, too punishing and, in the end, too cruel" in his frank autobiography.

After falling more than 40 winners behind his old rival by the start of the year, Dunwoody had fought back to be just four adrift before riding at Nottingham in March, but things took a turn for the worst when the reigning champion ran Maguire off the track in the opener.