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Former top jump jockeys Richard Johnson and Timmy Murphy have become point-to-pointing parents this season.
Murphy appeared at Larkhill last month to watch his son Lucas, 16, make his debut in the sport on Castletown, a horse just three years younger than his rider (father and son pictured above left). Castletown, who is trained by Lucas’s mother Verity Green and is owned and was bred by her father, well-known racehorse owner Raymond Anderson Green, had been entered to run in the hands and heels race at Larkhill tomorrow (Sunday) although the meeting has been abandoned.
With pony racing experience under his belt, Lucas produced a very proficient first effort to finish sixth of 15 runners, and then, after Christmas, on his second ride he served up another class performance when coming from off the pace to win on Bass Rock at Chaddesley Corbett.
He is following in hugely talented footsteps, for his father rode more than 1,000 winners over jumps, won the 2008 Grand National on Comply Or Die, the Irish National on Davids Lad and two Scottish Nationals on Merigo, and gained five Gr.1 victories on the superb Irish chaser Beef Or Salmon.
Lucas Murphy riding the grey Castletown on his pointing debut at Larkhill (Ce)
Richard ‘Dickie’ Johnson is making a return to the amateur sport, having kicked off his career by riding in point-to-points for one season before becoming a conditional jockey. That led to a stellar career in which he was champion jockey four times and won two Cheltenham Gold Cups. Had he been riding in any other era he would have amassed 20 championships, but he bumped into the great A P McCoy and finished runner-up to him on 16 occasions. He was also second to Brian Hughes towards the end of his career.
Johnson was also at Chaddesley Corbett’s post-Christmas meeting where he admitted to nerves – something that never seemed to bother him as a jockey – at watching his daughter Willow (the pair top of page on right) make her point-to-point debut in the ladies’ open race on Jimmy The Digger. The former Henry Daly-trained chaser jumped round safely and should give his rider plenty of fun this season.
Willow Johnson on Jimmy The Digger (no.9) makes her pointing debut at Chaddesley Corbett
Quite clearly, if point-to-pointing is good enough for two of jump racing’s greatest exponents it is good enough for any parent.
