Champion jockey Oisin Murphy looks ahead to his rides at the Cesarewitch meeting at Newmarket on Saturday including Coltrane in the handicap feature.
After the last week it’s really important to get my head down and keep on riding winners. I’ve ridden five to victory in the last seven days and I don’t feel I’ve left any behind, although I have had plenty of seconds in the same timeframe, as well.
It’s an exciting time of year with the well-bred maidens stepping out, we’ve got lots of Lope De Vegas and Galileos to run in the next few weeks, a lot of them will be babyish and they might need their runs, but this is the time of the season you discover the stars of next year.
As for Newmarket on Saturday, it’s mainly about the here and now with a few for the future thrown in for good measure, all being well. I’ve some good mounts so fingers crossed I can get some more winners on the board and keep up the pressure in the jockeys’ championship.