Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, highlights a young jockey who looks destined to be the next Italian hot-shot

Even when he’s not smiling Marco Ghiani looks cheerful. Last month 22 year-old Ghiani was crowned Champion Apprentice for the recently concluded All Weather season, but now the serious business begins as the turf season starts to blossom. Almost every Italian jockey who lands on these shores is hailed as ‘the next Frankie Dettori’ but as we will discover long after Frankie hangs up his boots, there’s only one Frankie. Not ev...