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ALAN KING.


ALAN KING took the training honours at the first Stratford meeting of the year when saddling a double with well-backed scorers Your Amount and Daryal yesterday.

Jockey
This article is about the sports occupation. For other meanings, see Jockey (disambiguation).


In sport, a jockey is one who rides horses in thoroughbred horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession.
 Robert Thornton For the politician, see .

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Robert "Choc" Thornton (born July 14, 1978 [1]) is an English National Hunt jockey currently employed as stable jockey to Alan King.
 excelled on both horses, showing how adept he is round the tight Stratford turns.

He sent 9-4 favourite Your Amount to the front two out in the opener and the combination smoothly pulled three and a half lengths clear of Noble Future.

There was plenty of market support behind Daryal who took advantage of the last-fence falls of Josear and Manhattan Boy in the novices' chase.
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Title Annotation:Sport
Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Mar 4, 2008
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