Leading Rider Luke Morris is expecting to visit the winners’ enclosure on Saturday!

It has been seriously cold this week and while it may not have been nice for most of us going to work in the mornings, spare a thought for the lads and lasses getting up in the dark and freezing weather to keep the racing show on the road.

Day-to-day in Newmarket at the moment it’s still fairly quiet. I’ve been riding a little bit of work for my boss Sir Mark Prescott but otherwise it’s just been a case of sitting on the horses we’ve got running on the all-weather and getting a good feel for them. We’ll start cranking things up properly from the end of next month looking to the season ahead.

In terms of what we’ve been facing on the all-weather this week, the cold weather can cause the tracks to ride a little bit deeper and that’s something you have to bear in mind.

In general it’s not very nice really to be out riding as from the minute you leave the weighing room you’re exposed to the elements and you can get pretty cold. Luckily I’m always quite busy and after a couple of rides you quickly warm up, but being quite light I always make sure I wrap up nice and warm anyway.

I’ll certainly be trying to keep as warm as I can at Lingfield on Saturday and there’s nothing like a few winners to help keep the cold away.

Stosur – 12.35 Lingfield
She’s got a solid chance. She’s back down to a mile from a mile-and-a-quarter which is a trip she has run well at in the past. Her draw in eight of eight isn’t ideal so we might look to go forward with her to try overcome that. I’d say she’d have a solid each-way chance in a trappy race.

Cocoa Beach – 1.45 Lingfield