Jonathan Powell meets Harry Skelton and asks if he can track down Champion Jockey leader Richard Johnson

JONATHAN POWELL

Harry Skelton

Christmas came early for Harry Skelton who achieved the considerable feat of reaching a century of winners for the season early in December with a double at Fontwell.
The pleasures of success are bound to be that bit greater when you have been through the mill and it is not easy to forget that during an unhappy period a few years ago Skelton couldn’t buy a winner for love nor money.
It happened when his career nosedived alarmingly in the seasons fol...