Oisin Murphy heads for the Big T

Oisin Murphy is not just another talented Irish horse rider... many smart racing people reckon he's the best jockey in the world. And his favourite pastime is reading lines written by the complicated, suicidal, American poet Sylvia Plath.

- Mike Moon

If those things don't set him apart from other denizens of the weighing room, there's the fact that he is about to be crowned UK champion jockey for the fourth time - following a remarkable comeback from a 14-month riding ban for dissembling to dodge British Covid restrictions, not to mention some attendant booze and drug offences.