Why does Ballydoyle-Coolmore have such a problem holding on to a number one jockey?

JOHNNY MURTAGH didn’t half light up a dull and sleepy last Monday when announcing his resignation from Ballydoyle-Coolmore.

Whatever one’s opinion of Murtagh, you couldn’t but admire the manner in which he got the retaliation in first, so to speak.

It must have torn his heart out to decide that the biggest job in European racing was no longer for him.