Hayley Turner, the joint champion UK apprentice jockey in 2005, is generally acknowledged as the most promising female rider to emerge in the 400‑year history of the Sport of Kings in this country.

Born in Manchester on 14 June, 1972, Darryll Holland served a three-year apprenticeship to Barry Hills from 1989. His first ride was on Budapest at Newbury on 14 June, 1989 (finished last) and his first winner on Sinclair Boy at Warwick on 7 May, 1990.

Born on 14 January, 1967, Alan Munro grew up in Hertfordshire and - after seeing a piece about Steve Cauthen on John Craven’s Newsround - decided he wanted to be a jockey and left school aged 16.

Richard Hughes was born in Ireland on 11 January, 1973, and served his apprenticeship with his father Dessie, a former top-class National Hunt rider who now trains in Co Kildare and won the 2004 and 2005 Champion Hurdles at Cheltenham with Hardy Eustace.

Neil Callan was born on 6 July, 1978, in County Kildare and initially rode in Ireland for Willie Fitzpatrick and Kevin Prendergast.

County Kilkenny-based James Anthony Heffernan, who was born on 17 July, 1972, and is universally known as Seamus, has been based at Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle stable since 1996.