Mr A T Feeney

Four years in the saddle since 2021 tells you this isn't someone dabbling. Feeney has stuck at it, kept finding rides, and kept turning up. That persistence is worth something in a sport where plenty of amateur riders drift away long before they ever find a rhythm.

The winners will come into focus eventually, but for now the story here is one of accumulation — of experience gathered one race at a time, on whatever horses the yard trusts him with. Every professional jockey who ever won a big race had a stretch like this somewhere in their story.