Hamish became the first horse in over 20 years to secure back-to-back victories in the tote.co.uk Bet £5 Get £20 Ormonde Stakes at Chester.
The William Haggas-trained gelding may be a seven-year-old, but he has been raced sparingly, with this only his 15th career start.
His six previous victories include three at Group Three level, with his win on the Roodee supplemented by success in the Cumberland Lodge at Ascot in October.
With conditions to suit, Hamish (7-4) was given plenty of time to find his feet by Tom Marquand as 11-10 favourite Changingoftheguard set out to make all.
Hamish and Tom Marquand after winning at Chester (Neil Morrice/PA)
The complexion of the race changed before the home turn when Changingoftheguard came under pressure while Hamish was only getting going and he was ultimately good value for the winning margin of a length and a quarter. Lone Eagle stuck to his task well to split the pair in second.
Hamish is only the fourth horse to win a second Ormonde Stakes and the first since St Expedit claimed successive wins in 2001 and 2002.
Maureen Haggas, assistant to her husband, said: “He was second in the Irish Leger last year and is in at York (Yorkshire Cup) next week. He could run there if there was some cut in the ground and he told us he was ready, as William’s father (Brian Haggas, owner) loves York.
“He had a tendon injury as a four-year-old – who knows what he might have achieved without that? But he’s one Andrew Tinkler and I fight to ride (at home), you get such an attachment to a horse like him.
“He once ran on good to firm at Newbury but he won’t be asked to race on anything faster than genuine good ground again.
“The whole family like a bit of cut in the ground, and all credit to him today as it wasn’t run to suit him.”
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Tom Marquand was back among the winners as William Haggas’ Amleto caught the eye with a comfortable success in the Deepbridge Syndicate Maiden Stakes at Chester.
The three-year-old is by Sea The Stars and out of the highly successful broodmare Holy Moon, a dam who also produced the late Sea Of Class – a Group One winner who finished second to Enable in the 2018 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Amleto did not win in two starts as a juvenile and was gelded earlier this year ahead of his seasonal debut on the Roodee.
Marquand was back in the saddle for only his second ride since a brief absence over the Guineas weekend, on the opening day of which he was kicked on the way to the start aboard Waipiro in the Newmarket Stakes.
Tom Marquand at Newmarket before an unfortunate incident put him on the sidelines (David Davies/PA)
He escaped any broken bones, but was wounded enough to require both stitches and a few days to recover.
He and Amleto went off at 7-2 and battled through the testing ground to pull away around the final bend, eventually going on to cross the line three and a half lengths ahead of their nearest rival.
Marquand said: “This is why you rush yourself back, to ride horses that are exciting for the future.
“He’s a horse that’s learning and building on what he’s been doing. He’s certainly going the right way.”
On his arm he added: “I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t sore, but I’m sound enough to ride and it feels all right once I’m on the back of the horse, so that’s the main thing.”
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Tom Marquand is eagerly looking forward to teaming up with Dubai Honour in Sunday’s QEII Cup at Sha Tin following his Australian exploits.
The William Haggas-trained five-year-old has taken his form to new heights this year, winning two Group Ones to emulate his former stablemate Addeybb.
In beating the now-retired Anamoe on his most recent outing, Dubai Honour announced himself on the world stage, displaying a turn of foot that should stand him in good stead this weekend.
Marquand missed his first win in the Ranvet Stakes with a shoulder injury, but was back on board in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes when defeat never looked likely.
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“He did what he did in Australia and was pretty exceptional over there. It looks like he’s taken the journey to Hong Kong really well and the updates I’m getting from there are that he looks great and everything has gone to plan so far,” said Marquand.
“I think he is a horse that has just come of age recently. William was very keen on the idea that he hadn’t had him as well as he has him now for a while.”
This will not be Dubai Honour’s first appearance at Sha Tin, as he ran with great credit in December 2021 to be beaten just a length and a half behind Japan’s Loves Only You in the Hong Kong Cup.
“His previous Hong Kong run was a big run, but you’d like to think if he can replicate his Australian form that would put him even a few lengths closer,” said Marquand.
“The ground will be a bit different to what he had in Australia but it wasn’t as slow as it looked like it was going to be that day, it was probably only good to soft ground, by our standards anyway.”
On what has been responsible for him seemingly taking his form to a new level, Marquand suggests a slight change in tactics may be the reason.
He said: “I think the way we ride him now has brought about a change. The day he finished second in the Champion Stakes, James (Doyle) dropped him in because we had Addeybb that day who went forward and he showed that turn of foot, but that was on bottomless ground.
“To be honest, we’ve been riding him close enough (to the pace) until he went back to Australia, where he has really shown a finishing kick. I think that was down to the way we rode him.
“It doesn’t look as if there are going to be too many runners at the weekend so hopefully we can do a similar thing.”
Flaming Rib will be better suited going around a bend (Tim Goode/PA)
Marquand has also picked up the ride on Hugo Palmer’s Flaming Rib in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize.
Impressive at Doha on his penultimate run, he was well beaten in Dubai subsequently but Marquand hopes the track layout will be in his favour this time.
“Going around a bend will be in his favour. He won in Qatar really well and he performs to a good level,” said Marquand, who will be riding him for the first time.
“Obviously he has to take on some very good sprinters, but hopefully he can put in a career best and go close.
“I fly Friday night, I’m back in Ireland on Monday and then probably Yarmouth Tuesday so it’s an in-and-out job!”
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William Haggas said he was “pretty keen” to set up a base in Australia after watching Dubai Honour blitz the field to provide him with a third win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick in the past four years.
Haggas was unable to be on course for either of Addeybb’s victories in one of Australia’s premier 10-furlong races due to the Covid pandemic, so he was keen to be there to watch Dubai Honour – especially after the gelding had won the Ranvet Stakes so impressively prior to it.
With Tom Marquand back in the saddle having returned from injury, Haggas will have been content throughout as he watched his jockey track Godolphin’s prolific Group One winner Anamoe into the straight.
And when Marquand got Dubai Honour into the clear the race was over, as he quickened up impressively to win by two and a half lengths. Anamoe was caught on the line for second by Mo’unga.
Reports in Australia during the week said Haggas has looked into setting up a satellite yard with Andrew Balding, and results like this will only make that more of a possibility.
“He’s very keen and I’m pretty keen so we’ll see what happens,” Haggas told www.skyracingworld.com.
Regarding his winner Haggas said: “Anamoe is a great horse, take nothing away from him.
“But this horse has come forward for being here and he’s won well today.
“Don’t underestimate him. He’s a pretty good horse and he was never quite right last year and he was boxing against some good horses – top, top horses.”
Marquand said: “For the boss to target the Queen Elizabeth with another horse and pull it off, it’s just insane.
“Genuinely, I’ve jumped aboard this horse on the right day at the right time and it’s everyone else behind it that got the job done. All I had to do was point and shoot.”
The winner is now set to head to Hong Kong before heading back to Newmarket.
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Tom Marquand is facing a spell on the sidelines after undergoing surgery on a shoulder injury sustained in a fall at Randwick last Saturday.
The rider headed to Australia for a prolonged spell earlier this month after a couple of previous successful visits, most notably landing three Group Ones with Addeybb, and he enjoyed a winner aboard Cafe Millenium at Randwick last Friday.
However, when partnering Annabel Neasham’s Dorothy Gail in the A$2million Inglis Millennium the following day, he suffered a heavy fall having been hampered by the manoeuvre of the Josh Parr-ridden Hellish. Parr was subsequently suspended for 20 meetings for careless riding.
Marquand initially appeared to have escaped serious injury, but subsequent MRI scans have revealed a dislocation of his sternoclavicular joint and the jockey was due to have an operation on his shoulder in Australia on Wednesday.
“It has basically dislocated backwards, so I have to go for an operation today (Wednesday) to get it wired back in,” Marquand said in a video posted to Instagram.
“I will probably spend a week here now in Australia just because I can’t fly straight after having an operation.
“Then the plan will be to come back to England and go through my rehab there and hope that I can get back in action by the time the last couple of days of The Championships are on and all being well, head back down to Sydney.”
Marquand’s wife Hollie Doyle is also currently out of action after sustaining an elbow injury in a fall at Wolverhampton last month.
Hollie Doyle also needs surgery on her elbow injury (John Walton/PA)
She had hoped she would not require surgery for the issue, but Marquand revealed she too needs further treatment.
He added: “Hollie is having a bit of a shocker as well, off with her elbow and she is going under the knife I think early next week,” Marquand said.
“We will be in rehab and recuperation together and be a right pair so at least we’ve got two arms between us.
“It’s obviously not ideal what’s going on, but I think we can both count ourselves pretty lucky in the circumstances.”
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Tom Marquand is to spend a night in hospital but appears to have escaped serious injury following a fall at Randwick.
Marquand has only just returned to Australia following previously successful spells in the country, and he had already been in winning form on the card when riding Cafe Millenium to victory in the Pierro Plate.
However, when partnering Annabel Neasham’s Dorothy Gail in the A$2million Inglis Millennium he hit the floor having been hampered by the manoeuvre of the Josh Parr-ridden Hellish. Parr was subsequently suspended for 20 meetings for careless riding.
“That was pretty horrible,” Neasham, who won the race with Learning To Fly, told SKY Thoroughbred Central.
“He (Marquand) is OK, he is sitting up, he is talking, he is holding his shoulder but he’s okay. He’s conscious, so he looks okay.”
Racing NSW later tweeted: “Tom’s CT scan of his head is clear, however he does have concussion and will be staying in hospital overnight. So far the scans on his shoulder have been clear.”
Marquand is due to ride in Qatar next weekend. His wife, Hollie Doyle, is also on the sidelines as she recovers from an elbow injury.
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Uphill be damned. He knows it will be a mountainous task, possibly harder even than last year.
Yet Tom Marquand confesses he will relish the challenge.
Oisin Murphy, who was deposed by William Buick as champion jockey last term – a title he held for three successive seasons before that – returns next month following a 14-month ban.
Buick, who went so close the year before and arguably should have been top dog, has now gnawed that tasty bone and is salivating for another.
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But that combination of great physical strength and a highly developed will to win, which has become his hallmark, ensures genial young pup Marquand will again be in the argument. It can only be a matter of time. So why not this year?
“Champion jockey has to be in the back of your mind,” said the 24-year-old, who has partnered over 100 winners in each of his last five years, including a whopping 176 turf and all-weather tally in 2021.
Last year the accent was more on quality. He rode three Group One winners and finished third in the title race, level with his wife Hollie Doyle on 91 wins having ridden more horses, and enjoyed a total of 127 victories overall.
For clarity, the Flat Jockeys’ Championship has operated on a reduced timescale since 2015 – and spans just 24 weeks from the start of the Guineas Meeting at Newmarket to British Champions Day at Ascot.
Changing the narrative from a 32-week window at the start of the turf season, on Lincoln Handicap Day, to the end on November Handicap Day, has confused die-hard traditional ‘turfistes’.
The change was made to make it potentially enticing to top jockeys, some of whom are simply not interested in chasing low-grade winners at far-flung places at the start and end of the season.
Marquand is different. Refreshingly bereft of aloofness, he is more than happy to face an icy midwinter blast and ride 0-60-rated performers at all-weather tracks if it means he quenches his thirst for winners.
If comparisons can be such a thing, then he is Flat racing’s equivalent of Richard Johnson. Rarely in this demanding sport have there been two more likeable, humble, honest and thoroughly wonderful exponents of the art of jockeyship.
Johnson, of course, was a supremely talented jump jockey, the finest of horseman cursed to have been the contemporary of the most relentless and gifted practitioner in the sport’s history.
Marquand hopes he will not have the misfortune to be condemned to the Buick or Murphy era, as Johnson was with AP McCoy.
“Once you are riding that amount of winners per year or per season, champion jockey is something that you are always going to want to try to go down with when you are done,” added Marquand.
Champion jockey William Buick has Marquand’s respect (John Walton/PA)
“So definitely champion jockey is something I’d like to do. It will be hard, but Will, to be honest, was insane last year.
“It was incredible what he did. He literally gapped us straight away.
“Before that, in the previous two years, I was in the hunt until mid-August and then they stretched away. I was always within 10 or 15 winners, but last year it was game over early.”
The odds are against it, this season at least. Sky Bet offer 14-1 for Marquand, who was champion apprentice in 2015, to take the title.
He has the utmost respect for the 1-2 favourite, however, insisting 34-year-old Buick will be tough to stop as he goes for his second crown.
“To be fair to Will, he is Godolphin’s stable jockey – he doesn’t need to do it (go everywhere and ride everything). But it is something he wants to do and he has just shown he can drop his head and run, and do everything right,” added the Classic-winning rider.
Sea La Rosa provided Marquand with one of his three top-class victories last year (Steven Paston/PA)
“Take a kid like (apprentice) Billy Loughnane, who is just starting out. You just go, ‘This is William Buick. This is what he does’, and he is never going to see anything that he shouldn’t do. He sets the example.”
Marquand admits he gets on well with the Norwegian-born rider, yet treats him with a due deference accorded to senior jockeys.
“I probably didn’t have too much to do with Will until a couple of years ago when we started travelling a bit, going to Hong Kong and stuff. He is probably that generation above me a little bit. You’ve got him, James Doyle, that crowd,” said Marquand.
“There are now two rows below me already – and I’m still only 24. You have Billy as one of the youngest ones, then you have Benoit (de la Sayette) and Harry Davies just below. It moves on quick.
Apprentice Billy Loughnane (right) has good examples to follow (Simon Marper/PA)
“But Will has always been that bracket above. It is a generational thing, even though in racing there are many generations within the weighing room.”
Disarmingly grounded, still conveying a sheen of wonderment at his good fortune to be in high demand, while enjoying plum rides for William Haggas, Roger Varian and other top yards, Marquand is fully aware of the grind and high standards required to reach his goal. Buick sets an increasingly high bar.
“Everybody in the weighing room has tremendous respect for Will,” Marquand added.
“I am one of the first ones to want to beat him, but you just commend people for their hard work when they do it that way.”
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There are more seagulls on the resplendent white infield – and many more floodlights – than punters. The bookmaker count is up to two. And there it shall stay.
One moderate horse after another is announced to less than a handful of die-hards as they circle wearily around the parade ring, replete with its bank of shovelled snow.
Our hero stands outside the weighing room on a bitterly cold January afternoon, a brusque wind thwacking his silks.
He is already sat on a 61-rated 25-1 chance in an extended nine-furlong handicap that takes an extended eternity to run. Later, he will be riding two similarly modest beasts, both of whom finish runner-up in head-to-head battles of mediocrity.
Cleared snow piled up next to the parade ring at Wolverhampton (Simon Marper/PA)
No matter. These are the days of toil and moil, ones that keep you mindful.
And far from despondent, Tom Marquand still cannot quite believe his luck.
They will have to go some before having a jockey-trainer relationship to match the longevity of George Duffield and Sir Mark Prescott. Yet given the warmth the 24-year-old rider has for William Haggas, it would be a brave man to bet against anything coming between their burgeoning partnership. Even if one of those two bookies would lay that bet.
This is all a far cry from Japan, where he and his wife, fellow jockey Hollie Doyle, spent a hugely successful riding spell at the end of last year.
Tom Marquand is excited by the prospects for the Flat season (Mike Egerton/PA)
On a bleak, raw afternoon such as this, it was only right to look to sunnier days and try to turn nuggets of negative into pebbles of positivity. Or in his case, boulders of belief, particularly in the Haggas horses.
“Quite a lot excites me to be honest,” says Marquand, his eyes sparkling and voice rising with anticipation.
“I went into the yard earlier in the month for the first time since coming back and you are probably almost guilty about forgetting some horses, because you get excited about others, and then you remember you’ve got yet another good one there.”
The softly-spoken, considered Haggas, who handled top-class colt Baaeed so brilliantly last term, does not have that big gun to fire, now that he’s gone to stud. There are still some powerful bullets in the barrel, however
Marquand explained: “To be honest, we have a really strong-looking team going into this year.
“The two that probably stand out the most, just because of the way their season went, are My Prospero and Maljoom.”
My Prospero was unfortunate not to have won all of his five starts last season, being touched off in the St James’s Palace Stakes and on his return to Ascot in the Champion Stakes.
Maljoom won the German Guineas before suffering all sorts of trouble in running in the St James’s Palace under the unfortunate Cieren Fallon, going down just half a length to Coroebus.
“They are both Group One horses that didn’t get their Group One on their cards for various different reasons,” said Marquand. “It was unfortunate, but they are two extremely exciting horses.
“I saw My Prospero and he looks an absolute monster. He looks gorgeous and he’s strengthened as well.
“The Champion Stakes was rated the second-highest race in the world and he was beaten half a length. To be honest, I thought things didn’t really go our way with the way the race set up, so it really poses the question of what might be to come with him.
Maljoom won the German Guineas last term (John Walton/PA)
“Maljoom, as well, had a pretty torrid time. He was unlucky at Ascot after winning the German Guineas. He then got sick and had a bad run at it, basically. He is one to look forward to, definitely.”
The 24-year-old feels he is in the best possible place, riding for a man who is effusive in his praise and slow to chide.
“It has been a nice relationship, even away from the trainer-jockey side,” said Marquand of the Newmarket handler.
“I’m lucky to have found someone who looks after me and treats me well.
“I think when you are young as well, it is so important because, realistically, even if you’ve had a bit of success, you are still trying to mould your career the right way.
Marquand is humbled to work for William Haggas and his team (Nigel French/PA)
“How many jockeys at 23 or 24 had a career and by the time they are 26 or 27 it’s gone? There’s a lot.
“To have someone like that… and it is not just him, it is Maureen (Haggas’ wife and assistant) and the lads at home, and the travelling lads.
“I don’t know, but for whatever reason, they have created a proper team. Everyone is invested. It is not like, ‘Oh we just work for him and we just do our job, and that’s it. Everybody is in for the long haul.”
In a stark reminder that this often beautiful sport can sometimes be equally brutal, Doyle suffered a broken elbow in a fall at Wolverhampton a couple of weeks ago. There is no timescale for her return to the saddle.
Yet if ever there was an old head on young shoulders, it belongs to her husband.
Frosty days at Wolverhampton provide perspective (Simon Milham/PA)
Grateful for the career he has and the good friends he works for, Marquand is appreciative and pragmatic.
“It is humbling,” he adds. “When stuff like that happens, nothing is a given.
“You are not going to wake up tomorrow morning and go and get on a Group One horse or anything like that – you might not be able to get up to ride a Group One horse, even if you have found it.
“It is racing. It is all sport. So it is pretty easy to keep it all in perspective, to be honest.”
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Tom Marquand would love to return to Japan to ride again at the end of the British Flat racing season.
The 24-year-old, along with wife and fellow jockey Hollie Doyle, competed in the last two International Jockeys Championships in Hong Kong before heading to Japan for a nine-week stint.
It was the couple’s first trip to Japan, with Covid restrictions having scuppered their plans in 2021 – and the fervent Japanese fans instantly took them to their hearts.
After booting home 16 winners and securing a fourth-placed finish on Daring Tact in the Japan Cup and another Group One ride on Justin Palace in the Arima Kinen, Marquand cannot wait to get back, if invited.
“It is one of the places that everyone in racing should try to visit, just to see it,” he said.
“For as much as people can tell you about it, until you actually go and experience it for at least a couple of weeks, it is pretty mad.
“Everyone should try to get out there. Apart from the racing, it is an amazing country. I’d go back in a heartbeat.”
Marquand and Doyle, who is sidelined with a broken elbow sustained in a fall at Wolverhampton on January 16, will bid to apply to return at the end of the year.
“We will definitely try to go back this year,” he said.
“Sadly, it is not quite as straightforward as saying, ‘I want to go, I’ll go’, like Australia.
“But hopefully, the fact that we had a successful enough trip will help. The application for a licence is based on your success from the year previous, so it is based on what we have done in 2022 in England.
“We were joint second in the championship and you have to be top three in England and/or have ridden two major Group One winners. We both had three last year, so hopefully that will be enough to get back in.”
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As Frankie Dettori begins his long goodbye, a farewell tour before retirement from the saddle at the end of this year, the sport of racing will scratch its head and wonder just how it is going to fill the void.
Dettori has affected the brand like no other before him. He is known worldwide. The flamboyant Italian has achieved almost everything that can be achieved in the saddle.
Now at the age of 52, Dettori is almost done punching the clock and his weighing-room colleague Tom Marquand insists there will be no one who can do as much for the visibility of the sport.
“I don’t think anyone could fill the gap that Frankie is going to leave, because he is Frankie,” said Marquand.
The farewell tour begins for racing’s golden boy Frankie Dettori (Mike Egerton/PA)
“He is someone that won’t be replaced, not only because of his achievements but the way he goes about it as well – he’s Frankie, no one else is going to be Frankie. Anyone else can try, but they are not going to manage it.”
Marquand, 24, married fellow jockey Hollie Doyle in March last year. The pair, who met when pony racing, have been dubbed racing’s ‘Golden Couple’.
They shared the spoils behind William Buick in the Flat jockeys’ championship last term, each riding 91 winners between the Guineas meeting and Champions Day. Both had a trio of Group One victories.
The fact that Hollie and Tom are both extremely good at their jobs and are highly personable, professional and generous with their time, makes them a marketing dream.
Becoming A-list racing celebrities was never part of the plan. Marquand says he is not yet used to it, much less feels like he deserves it.
“We have never really gone out of our way to do anything,” he said.
Racing’s royal couple are highly marketable (John Walton/PA)
“We have never really chased it. We recognise the sport needs promoting and if we are doing well, it is our job to go alongside riding and we recognise that. It is not something we view as we can boost our career by doing it. It is part of the job.”
The pair went down a storm when competing against each other in Japan recently.
“It is one of the places that everyone in racing should try to visit,” he adds. “It is an amazing country and we’d both go back in a heartbeat.”
Hollie is facing a spell on the sidelines, having broken her left elbow in a fall at Wolverhampton, so Tom is preparing to fly solo to Australia, a trip that could end up being a near three-month stay.
He rode eight winners when last in New South Wales in 2021, which included partnering the now-retired Addeybb to victory in the Group One Queen Elizabeth Stakes for a second time.
Tom Marquand will not have the benefit of riding Champion Stakes hero Addeybb in Australia (Alan Crowhurst/PA)
Marquand will team up with trainer William Haggas, who will send four horses to the six-week Sydney Autumn Carnival, which features 18 Group One contests worth over £22million.
Group Two winners Dubai Honour and Purplepay will join handicappers Earl Of Tyrone and Protagonist, both owned by Melbourne Cup-winning syndicate Australian Bloodstock. He is also expected to get plenty of rides from local trainers.
However, Marquand, who has ridden 42 winners in total on his last three visits to Sydney, admits the trip, which sees him have his first rides on February 4, could be emotionally challenging.
“We know how lucky we are to get opportunities like going to Hong Kong and Japan together, because they so hard to come by,” he said.
“Hollie and I compete as individuals. It is an interesting dynamic.
“I’d be one of the most competitive people ever and Hollie would be the same – you pick up a tennis racket and you’d want to win a game of tennis, pick up a golf club, you want to win a game of golf.
Tom Marquand (centre) and Hollie Doyle (left) both go at it as individuals (Adam Davy/PA)
“Probably because it is so volatile in the racing world with your results – one day you might ride a treble or ride a St Leger winner then go to Wolverhampton the next day for six rides and don’t ride anything better than a 0-65 horse – that is what keeps you grounded.
“Between us, because we are both experiencing each other’s ups and downs as well, it evens it out even more.
“It helps the relationship. In reality, it has been quite hard sometimes.
“It is going to happen in a couple of weeks. I am going to want to go to Australia and if Hollie wasn’t injured, she’d be riding here – and having two months away is hard.
“I know other jockeys experience it, but they get their wife to get to come over for a week or month or something, whereas we don’t really get that unless it is like Japan, where we got to go together – and that is the first time that has ever happened for more than a few days.
“So, it does make it hard in some elements. I don’t know whether she will come, but it is one of those things.
“But if we ran our respective careers off each other, it wouldn’t work, because neither of us would be successful, so you have both got to go at it as individuals. We have managed to make it work.”
When Hollie’s injury heals, the sport’s dream team will once again be pitting their wits against each other on the track, worrying about who will do the washing up and ironing later.
“We don’t rib each other. Even in pony racing, it never really came into it,” adds Marquand.
“Ultimately we both want to win, but we are fully of the idea that if you are not going to win personally, you hope it is her and she is the same.
“Obviously, she would sooner beat me than finish second but not because it is me – it is because she wants to win and I’m the same.”
The couple will continue to push each other and support each other, and that could not make racing’s marketing bods any happier. Without Frankie, the show must go on.
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