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’.

Thu, 22 Jan, 2004 - 00:00
Martin Kelly

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.

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