Getting up early and heading to a newsagent’s in Cheltenham for a Racing Post bang smack in the middle of the Festival can be hard work, but you are usually rewarded with a surreal sight or two.

When Anthony Tohill played a game for the Manchester United reserves, the reports in the local press referred to him as Tony Tohill.

Tony McCoy once summed up the essential ingredient in the make-up of a champion jump jockey with searing simplicity.

AP McCoy The autobiography