Sam gets his teeth into the job

As an entrepreneur who runs a thriving dental healthcare business, amateur jockey Sam Waley-Cohen is well-placed to advise weighing room colleagues lacking a full set of teeth.

The jockeys who earn their living in jumps racing, where the risk of serious injury from falling from a speeding horse is a daily occupational hazard, could be demanding free treatment should Waley-Cohen steer second favourite Long Run to Cheltenham Gold Cup glory on Friday.

“When you’re in there and you see a lot of guys who have had their teeth knocked out and they take their dentures out to go and race...there is plenty of work to be done in the weighing room,” Waley-Cohen said.