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Both riders could be in action at Lower Machen in South Wales on Sunday when the 2025/26 season opens, with Andrews pencilled in to partner former handicap chaser Poppa Poutine in the ladies’ open race for trainer Abbie Willmott, although a final plan will be decided later today. King is booked for several mounts, and while followers of the sport expect him to be in the shake-up for another men’s championship he says: “We’ll just have to see how it goes through the season and if I’m in contention in May then we’ll take it from there.
“I’m really lucky to have some lovely horses to ride before Christmas and I’m just hoping for an injury-free season.”
Based in Warwickshire, King, who turns 30 next month, won his first senior title in the Covid-affected 2021/22 season with 33 wins before retaining it 12 months later with a personal best 62 victories, a figure which has only been bettered once in a single season (Will Biddick, 68 wins in 2014/15). King lost out to Biddick the following season, but won the championship back in 2023/24 (49 wins) and held onto it again last season with 57 victories before extending his overall score with a subsequent winner at Bratton Down. He needs five further British point-to-point wins to join a select group – currently numbering eight riders – who have reached 300 victories in the sport alone.
Every champion for the past 60 years has needed a winner-producing stable to provide the backbone of their campaign, and King’s position as no.1 rider for Llanelli trainer Luke Price has been a major factor in his success. Yet curiously he reveals: “I can honestly say I have never, ever ridden out at Luke’s yard. He does it all himself, he gets them fit and I just get on them at the races.”
Last season that meant teaming up with the Price-trained Inchidaly Robin, an eight-year-old who was unbeaten in eight races on good or quicker ground and landed the Connollys RED MILLS leading horse title. King says of Inchidaly Robin: “He summered really well – he’s such a good doer and came in so fat he looked like a cob. I don’t expect you’ll see him running until February or March and he’s so lowly-rated under rules he looks an obvious one for the new series of races for horses rated below 110 [under rules].”
Inchidaly Robin (James King) who is expected to be back in action in the New Year (Ce)
The Price-trained Sailor McKay is a likely mount for King in the three-mile maiden at Lower Machen where he also partners Baron Du Brizais for Luca Morgan in the GB Pointing Young Horse race. Welsh racing and point-to-pointing legend David Brace provides King with a mount on Paint The Dream in the men’s open race, which, like the ladies’ equivalent, is worth £1,000 to the winner.
With a record 11 senior women riders’ championships and more than 500 winners in the locker it might be thought that Andrews could throttle down a gear, but that is not on the cards at present. Running a point-to-point yard in Warwickshire at stables based alongside those of her husband, licensed trainer Tom Ellis, Andrews could be busier than ever this season. For the past few years her brother Jack has broken in the new recruits and ridden the four- and five-year-olds in races, but now he has resumed riding as a professional jockey his former role will fall upon his sister’s shoulders.
Andrews says: “We’ve got about 35 pointers in, which is about the same as last year, but that includes up to 20 young horses. I thought my days of riding young horses were over, but I always enjoyed riding them. Jack broke them in and did them at home, so he rode them in races.”
Once again she has some enviable slightly-older horses to ride – six-year-old Cheytac is one, although Andrews says he needs to “brush up his jumping” – but early plans for runners revolve around rain and the amount that falls. Assuming the clouds do open she expects to make entries for meetings at Garthorpe and Horseheath later this month, with the very promising five-year-old Call Me Early a possible runner at the last-named fixture. Multiple winner I’m Spellbound is another who could run at that meeting, while Fairly Famous could head to the same venue for its New Year’s Eve meeting.
Fairly Famous (centre, Gina Andrews) in a duel with winner Famous Clermont (right) at Stratford (Ce)
The top echelons of hunter chasing seemed to await Fairly Famous in his youth, but while he won two point-to-points early last season he then underperformed. His trainer/rider has not lost faith in the eight-year-old – who is owned like Call Me Early by the Signy & Marriage families – saying: “He was never right last season. He had a wind op in the summer [of 2024] and just wasn’t at his best. I thought he ran well enough at Stratford but by then the season was over. I still think he’s a high-class horse and in better form than this time last year.”
