Loder wants ‘Cantona magic’ from Murtagh

NEWMARKET trainer David Loder yesterday explained his thinking behind the booking of Johnny Murtagh as stable jockey – and expressed the hope that the Irishman might be as successful for him as ‘Eric Cantona was for Alex Ferguson’.

Loder, who this season is training without the full force of Sheikh Mohammed behind him, celebrated a winner at Lingfield yesterday.

On the subject of Murtagh, he told attheraces: “The most important thing is not what the trainer thinks, but what the owners want.