Going update

I'm from Maghery in Co Armagh and I don't come from an equine background. It was a friend that did show jumping, to a pony level, and I tagged along with him. Then his mum got me into riding lessons in the local area, and it took off from there then. The first time I sat on a racehorse was in Stephen McConville's yard. He was only 10 minutes down the road from me. I was 15 and I rode out at the weekends and whenever I was off school in the summer.

George Boughey has issued a warning to Bow Echo’s rivals that his 2000 Guineas hero is only getting better ahead of what is shaping up to be a mouth-watering St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Vaureal showed a great attitude to come out on top in the featured K-Mech Mechanical Handicap Chase at Punchestown this afternoon.