'There are tens of thousands of pounds at stake when we run these horses - which is why I'm riding them'

If you want to see artistry in the saddle amid the relaxed atmosphere of a point-to-point, book your tickets soon for a show that cannot go on forever. British point-to-point's finest exponent of riding a horse from one side of a fence to the other is moving his career through changes that will transform it from record-smashing rider to trainer and trader.

Will Biddick, a Cornishman based in Somerset, heads to Chaddesley Corbett in Worcestershire on Sunday needing one winner for his 600th in the sport (he has a further 77 outside of it), another milestone he will reach with the easy calm with which he presents horses at fences. He is also a Cheltenham Festival-winning rider and trainer.

Many years ago, when he was a hungry – literally and figuratively – young conditional jockey, I mentioned his lying-up-the-neck style, one most amateurs find hideously at odds with gravity, to his then boss Venetia Williams, and she said: “Yes, but I like that.” Now he is a 37-year-old father of two with the venerability of age and wily experience, but still the most aerodynamic amateur on the circuit and as keen as ever for the next winner.