Burke new first jockey to Potts

Jonathan Burke has been appointed first jockey to one of the biggest owners of National Hunt horses in this country, Alan and Ann Potts, replacing Andrew Lynch.

The Potts, who have most of their sizeable string with Henry de Bromhead, as well as a handful with Jim Dreaper, are best known as the owners of the high-class Sizing Europe.

Alan Potts is a hugely successful businessman, establishing a company called MMD in 1978. MMD design and manufacture material processing equipment used in many types of surfaces and underground mining operations the world over. In particular the company has extended the technology of mineral reduction by the development of low profile, high capacity, compact sizing machines.