Nowadays, Jamie Snowden is an established trainer with over 200 winners to his name and, at the time of writing, is already enjoying his most successful season ever, numerically, with 43 winners from 171 runners, at a strike rate of 25%. A graduate from the point-to-point sphere, Snowden was, in his earlier days, a highly accomplished amateur rider. In fact, as ‘Mr. J. Snowden’ and ‘Capt. J. Snowden’,…

We all have 'favourites'. Whether it's a favourite song, or colour or dare I say it even a person. Of course in the sport of kings that translates to a favourite jockey, trainer, owner, you get the idea. What elevates one above another is a question with a thousand possible answers. In racing it may well be a jockey that has managed to grind out a win for…

Point-to-point racing, or 'pointing', is an amateur version of steeplechasing. Point-to-point races, historically known as hunt races, originated in the second half of the nineteenth century, as a means of keeping hunting horses fit outside of the main fox hunting season, which traditionally runs between November 1 and May 1. Much the same as steeplechasing, the name was derived from the fact that hunters raced, quite literally, from…