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Sarah Easterby has collected the Tattersalls-sponsored leading owner title for the curtailed 2019/20 season, during which her colours were carried to victory on six occasions.

It was the second time Easterby has collected the award, having initially won it in the 2015/16 season with 16 winners. At that time she was training pointers from her Yorkshire home, and she also collected the Foran Equine champion trainer award for yards with seven or fewer horses.

Since then she has handed over training duties to her son Will, who also does the riding and who joined her at Tabley in Cheshire on Sunday when Tattersalls’ Shirley Anderson-Jolag (above right) presented the winner with a memento of her title.

Easterby said: “It’s great that Tattersalls support our sport and we are very grateful to them for the award we received. So much has happened since last season, but it was lovely to gain some recognition. We had a little burst of winners just before the season was ended by the first lockdown, mainly thanks to Black River who won three races for us.

“It’s been difficult to get going this season because of Covid, but it was good to end on a winner at Hexham on Sunday when Ask To Dance won his maiden. He didn’t sell at Doncaster, but he’s a lovely horse to have around the yard and I’m very happy that he’s come home.

“He might have a job to do in a year or two’s time, because our youngest son Thomas is 15, and he seems keen to have a go at pointing.”

Sunday’s presentation would have taken place at the National Dinner & Awards Ceremony, but that event could not go ahead due to Covid. As a result the season’s national winners have been receiving their awards at race meetings around the country.