Racing To School flourishing again - and if it irritates you, you're the child

Among all the bad publicity for racing during 2021, the resurgence of Racing To School in the year of its 20th anniversary has been an enormous positive.

The education charity ground to a halt for a time because of Covid, but it has – quite literally – got back on track this year, introducing scores of schoolchildren to the sport through racecourse visits, including at Cheltenham this month at the last of this year's events. Fingers crossed Covid doesn't stand in its way next year.

It was a pleasure to read colleague Peter Thomas's account of schoolchildren from Radnage Primary School in Buckinghamshire enjoying a trip to Kempton last month, and the reaction of most people to seeing children – who could, after all, be our future jockeys and trainers – was heartening.