Knight sticking to the winning routine

The minutes are ticking away towards Best Mate’s date with destiny and Henrietta Knight’s superstitions are starting to get the better of her.

Already she is painstakingly going through what she did on the corresponding day last year, so that they can be repeated at exactly the same time and in exactly the same way on March 18 as her superstar goes in search of a historic third consecutive victory in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.