Stable jockey must fear he has made same mistake as in 2019 after again picking Cyrname over Clan Des Obeaux
Jockeys who become trainers always say that there is more pressure in their second career than in their first, so perhaps this year’s King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day is an exception to prove a rule. Paul Nicholls has four of the nine runners including the first two in the betting, he has already saddled a record 11 winners of the Christmas highlight and is around a 4-11 chance to make it a round dozen. For Harry Cobden, his stable jockey, the situation is a little more complicated.
Cobden is enjoying the best season of his career in terms of winners, and is within touching distance of Brian Hughes, the current champion jockey, in the race for the title. He is also as imperturbable as any rider in the weighing room when faced with the ever-changing fortunes of a jump jockey’s life.
