POINT-TO-POINT Special
IT is a truth universally acknowledged that a sense of humour is essential in anything to do with horses.
One of the charms of the pointing world is the warmth and fun its members bring to even the dampest, coldest of February hillsides. That’s not to dismiss the Corinthian spirit and fierce competitiveness of the racing itself - quite the opposite. Yet amid the celebrations, the trophies and the picnics, there will always be times things don’t, perhaps, go quite to plan…
Look up “perseverance” in the dictionary, and beneath it you will find a picture of John Dawson’s smiling face, alongside what started life as a stirrup.
The northern-based jockey was riding El Tornado, an eight-year-old grey seeking his first win on his sixth start, for trainer Cherry Coward in a maiden at Hexham in May this
