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Trainer did not lose sleep over departure of three of her best horses in her first full season and sends out second-favourite Waiting Patiently for Boxing Day’s big race

It is less than six months since Ruth Jefferson learned that three of the best horses in her stable would not be returning after their summer break. For a trainer in her first full season with a licence, still mourning the loss of her father, Malcolm, who had trained at the family yard for nearly 40 years, it could have come as a crushing setback.

Instead her response was both sensible and magnificent. “I think the thing is that I was born into this,” Jefferson said this week. “I was born the year that Dad started training. Horses come and go, people move, people leave. You can let it define you and let it worry you or you can just say, fair enough, it’s their choice, and crack on with what you’ve got. I took the option that I’d rather concentrate on what I’ve still got than worry about what’s left. Whether that’s a good attitude or a bad attitude, I don’t know.”

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