'It's full on, seven days a week - you almost have to be addicted to the job'

In a Cambridgeshire garden chalet, Tony Hind is intently studying the entries pages of his Racing Post. They are personally customised, multi-coloured pages, as are those in the edition owned by Niall Hannity, who studies no less intently in North Yorkshire. Jockeys' agents, you see, are decidedly fond of marker pens.

Ryan Moore is orange, although with Coolmore's main man suspended until Wednesday there is no orange to be seen. William Buick is blue, which makes sense given his employer, but as he will be in Germany, not Britain, on the Saturday being sorted, there is also an absence of blue. For fans of green there is better news. It is Jim Crowley's colour and the former champion jockey is evidently set for a busy day at Newbury.

For Hind and Hannity, every day is a busy day during the turf Flat season. Both started work before 6am, while it's highly unlikely Chris Humpleby, a relative newcomer to the agency profession, had much of a lie-in, even though James Doyle is his sole client.