Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, studies the race to become this year’s Champion Jockey

Changing from a jumping mindset to the flat is a gradual process. I am still recovering from missing the Grand National; I know that a horse that I’d never heard of won at 50/1 but as I mentioned last month, I was at a wedding and I had been assured that there would be a small screen transmitting the greatest steeplechase on the planet.
Never in a million years did I expect the Best Man speech to be in full flow as they were jumping Becher’s for the first time, and it was still f...