Racing’s quiet man

APART from those in flat racing’s insider circles the name Wayne Lordan doesn’t mean much to many people.

Over the last ten years he has steadily built up a reputation for himself as one of the most stylish and classy jockeys in the weighroom, but among the broader public his name would never be one of the first to come to mind.

The cognoscenti, however, recognise him as a leading practitioner of his trade and his situation as first jockey to both Tommy Stack and David Wachman is a recognition of the fact that the man from Upton in Co. Cork is right up there with the Berrys, the McDonoghs and the Smullens as being amongst the brightest of the newer generation of riding talents in the country.