ON Tuesday this week I travelled to Kelso racecourse in Scotland to auction at a fundraising dinner for a couple of charities, including the Injured Jockeys Fund, and I was delighted to sit next to the guest speaker Jack Berry.

Younger readers of this column (if they exist) might not be familiar with the name, but Jack was a major training force in the 1990s, specialising in two-year-olds and sprinters including Mind Games, Bolshoi, Paris House and Distinctly North.