‘A good start in life 100% bears fruit’
IF you were to stick a pin in the entries list for Cheltenham, chances are the horse’s first racing experience was at a point-to-point. The progressive six-year-old Grade Two winner Does He Know, trained by H&H columnist Kim Bailey, has already twice proved himself at Cheltenham this season and holds a selection of Festival entries. His racing journey started with a win at Charm Park, piloted by John Dawson, for Jacqueline Coward.
“My grandad Mick Easterby bred him. I rode his dam, Diavoleria, and won a bumper on her at Ludlow,” she says.
“He was at my grandad’s. My uncle David [Easterby] said, ‘Bob’ – my nickname – ‘go and get that horse out the field, don’t worry about grandad, just take him and do what you can with him.’ So I did.
“I didn’t tell them how I was
