As a counterpoint to any idea that a racehorse owner’s role is to pay the bills and pose for photos, Andy Edwards’s two- minute interview after L’Homme Presse’s victory in the Fleur de Lys Chase at Lingfield last month is hard to match.
“Everyone watching ITV saw me burst into tears with the emotion of it all,” Edwards said this week. “Thirteen months [off the track due to injury], a lot of effort by a lot of people, including myself, in the yard. Jess [O’Keeffe], the head lass, Beth [Baldwin] the groom, the vets, the osteo Liz, Venetia [Williams, L’Homme Presse’s trainer] and all the people who generally helped me with him. At one point in the summer, I was in there five days a week to help with his recuperation.
