Why Featherstone might be a name to note - even for the Racing Post database

Confusing the Racing Post's Lambourn correspondent is easily done; sneaking one past the organisation's famed database is quite another. Yet both of us have had our issues when it comes to the two Will Featherstones.

I got to know the first Will Featherstone when he was riding for Jamie Snowden at the trainer's owners' day a few years ago, but the hospitality of the event means conversations and introductions can become blurred.

I was in Newbury one night when the-then jockey started talking to me in a pub. He was with others from the industry, but I didn't have the foggiest. The same nearly happened when I was having supper in Lambourn with my esteemed colleague and friend Lewis Porteous, and Featherstone came over and said hello, aghast (again!) that I didn't seem to know who he was.