'I wanted to be like Ruby Walsh'

Winter), while he also expects to be aboard Emma Lavelle-trained Cleeve Hurdle winner Ma Shantou in the Stayers’ Hurdle.

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“Paul is sending a small, select team,” said Cobden. “He’s not going to run horses for the sake of it. Ma Shantou must be right up there with the best of the British in the Stayers’.”

Growing up on Nicholls’s doorstep, Somerset farmer’s son Cobden knew his vocation early on.