BEN CURTIS will ride “more and more” for Mark Johnston’s record-breaking Middleham stable this year - and his odds for the 2021 jockeys’ title are in freefall.
Despite a season ravaged by the COVID-19 crisis, the 31-year-old Irishman had a 2020 to remember, with a calendar-year total of 170 winners - more than any jockey in Britain.
And Curtis’s rise - including a success board the Johnston-trained Nayef Road in the Group 3 Sagaro Stakes at Newmarket last June - has caught the eye of the North Yorkshire-based Scot, who in August 2018 overtook the now-retired Richard Hannon snr as the winningmost trainer in the history of British racing. “We don’t have any formal arrangements with any jockeys - the last formal retainer I had with any jockey
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