Nick Townsend talks to rising Newmarket training star James Owen

Burdett Road with trainer James Owen (second right) and jockey Harry Cobden after winning the JCB Triumph Trial Juvenile Hurdle at Cheltenham in 2023

An air of expectation pervades Green Ridge Stables in Newmarket’s Hamilton Road. It does not surprise you. And this is even before East India Dock and Burdett Road justify such anticipation at Cheltenham’s November meeting and epitomise the yard’s meteoric rise to prominence.
A touch over-hyped? Well, as I write this, the upwardly mobile James Owe...