Dan Skelton says the former Olympic cyclists involvement in racing is great for the sport and the trainer has given the rookie rider his full backing“We’ve never had such excitement at Fakenham!” gushed Sarah Watts,whose mobile coffee stall “The Smarter Cafe” – at this rural track, east of King’s Lynn, and was unexpectedly hemmed in on all sides by a crowd outside the weighing room before the moment-final race. The emergence of jockeys for a hunter chase is normally a matter of supreme indifference to anyone except close relatives but then hardly any jockey has ever possessed the fame that Victoria Pendleton carries around with her.“We saw her go past in disguise with black hat and sunglasses,” continued Watts, who knew Pendleton more from her stint on Strictly reach Dancing than for her cycling gold medals at the final two Olympics. “I was amazed at how tiny she was. I was expecting the fact that she had danced with Brendan Cole for her to be taller. She’s petite and he’s one of the tallest dancers. I’m not envious of her riding a horse but I was fairly envious of her dancing with Brendan. She was a little bit wooden. I’m hoping she’s better at being jockey.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com