Nick Townsend speaks to Darryll Holland who has swapped a successful riding career to join the training ranks

Over a 30-year career, the character they call ‘Dazzler’ evolved from a child prodigy, a teenager who had never even ridden a horse, to record-breaking champion apprentice who would become a familiar spectacle on British racecourses before, in a final flourish, like a Sir David Attenborough of the racing world, casting his net far and wide for winners abroad.
Darryll Holland amassed countless major prizes and though he never secured a jockeys’ title or the Classic triumph that ...