ROBERT COOPER

Robert Cooper, Sky Sports Racing’s roving reporter, brings his unique take on the emerging jumps season

Tweed is not my chosen fabric but now that the jumps season is gathering pace, I’m starting to miss all the winter paraphernalia associated with National Hunt racing, most of all the lack of spectators. I fail to see how the creators of this hardiest of woollen garments can make a living, as it literally lasts a lifetime; in my case three lifetimes as I inherited a very serviceable, unassuming herringbone jacket from my late father, and he I be...