Four legs to four wheels: the former Cecil apprentice getting Newmarket moving

David Lockhart was part of the apprentice scene himself but is now helping the next generation of Newmarket youngsters with his own driving academy in the town.

Lockhart, once a member of the Sir Henry Cecil team, was forced to quit the saddle in 1995 due to concerns over the possibility of contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) from injections he was having to help his rate of growth.

Having driven other people's cars as a chauffeur to the racing elite in the early days following his retirement from the saddle, most notably Lester Piggott, the 51-year-old Scot set up David Lockhart Driving in 2001 and has since taught many of his contemporaries' offspring to drive and pass their tests in his VW Golf.