Nick Townsend catches up with Royal Ascot’s unlikely hero Danny Tudhope

Dramatised ridden by jockey Daniel Tudhope wins the Queen Mary Stakes

For a self-proclaimed quiet man of the weighing room, one who prefers to leave others to dance in the limelight, Danny Tudhope often finds himself damned to the exposure he’d rather avoid – through his own success. “I’m not very good at being in front of the camera. I’d rather stay in the background,” the Scot admits. Which is no easy task when you have just partnered four winners at Royal Ascot.
We speak in the week following that quartet of...