INTERVIEW
Nick Townsend talks to trainer Tom Symonds, once assistant to Nicky Henderson, now successful in his own right

As a pupil, Tom Symonds studied at some of the greatest seats of thoroughbred learning. Names like Venetia Williams, for whom he rode out, Michael and Peter Scudamore and Flat trainer James Fanshawe, with whom he has enjoyed associations, leap off the pages of his CV. But in the National Hunt game, few can add more lustre to a man’s employment record than Nicky Henderson.
Symonds was just 21 when he became assistant to the current and six-times overall champion jump...