THE BIG INTERVIEW

Nick Townsend talks to Emma Lavelle about her stable star

Paisley Park and, inset, Emma Lavelle

Racehorses tend to be bestowed with all manner of human qualities – genuine, brave, courageous, honest – but few have ever been said to have been likened to a poker player. But that’s Paisley Park, Emma Lavelle’s star hurdler – at least according to her husband, assistant and ex-jockey Barry Fenton who rides out the nine-year-old daily.
You can see his point. In Ascot’s Porsche Long Walk Hurdle six days before Christ...