Nick Townsend talks to Nico de Boinville about life in the saddle and riding top horses

While Sean Bowen, Harry Skelton, Sam Twiston-Davies and Harry Cobden dominate the early skirmishes for the jump jockeys’ championship, the current 26th on the leaderboard has an altogether different target in his mind’s eye: yet more Grade 1 victories, to add to a phenomenal tally of 45.
This key member of Nicky Henderson’s Seven Barrows yard in Lambourn has never been in pursuit of a championship - his best year in that regard being 86 winners in 2018/19 – because Nico de Boinville has other priorities...