The week in words: 'I was up on the kitchen table shouting ‘go on my son!''

I wasn't sore at all this morning. I'd trained my goolies off and was tired in the closing stages, but it was my first race for 24 years and I'm 56!
56-year-old Mick Jeffries, who rolled back the years with his first ride for the best part of a quarter of a century in a miraculous return to the saddle at Southwell

The day I stop enjoying it is the day I pack it in. I just love it, it's like being an adrenaline junkie; looking after and training horses is a drug for me
Trainer John Flint after Eddiemaurice scored at Newbury

I wouldn’t be losing faith yet. He has an unbelievable amount of ability
Jack Kennedy warns not to underestimate Samcro after a mixed start to his novice chase campaign

It's another string to my bow and it's within my comfort zone. You get a little bit heavier in the winter and I'm in a position to ride. I don't have a big job or anyone tapping me on my shoulder saying 'what are you playing at?'
Frankel's rider Tom Queally prepares to try his hand over fences in a quest to ride more winners

I texted him after the race that I’d got up and started shouting about three out and then I was up on the kitchen table shouting ‘go on my son’. At the end I put ‘ride of the month, if not the year!’ It was an absolutely blinding ride from him and a bad ride from the other jockeys
Michael Hills heaps praise on Dylan Hogan's enterprising ride on Wanaasah at Wolverhampton

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