Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, on the vagaries of racehorse ownership and the dilemmas of the handicapper

Beggars can’t be choosers but the two jobs in racing I would least relish would to be a jockey’s agent or a handicapper. I’ve never been over fond of the telephone; I’d owned a mobile for a year before it rang, and the thought of ringing grumpy trainers at dawn fills me with dread and apprehension, let alone informing the jockeys I represent that they’ve got another day off. I am full of admiration for top agents Dave Roberts and Tony Hind, and how Racing TV ...