Mathewforth

Kieran Shoemark on the hardest three weeks of his career 🗣️ "I lost the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket; I lost the French 1,000 Guineas in the stewards' room a week later; Lead Artist, who I'd ridden in all his starts, then went and won the Lockinge [under Oisin Murphy] and then a week after that Field Of Gold won the Irish 2,000 Guineas [with Colin Keane on board]. "If things had gone my way, there were four Group 1s literally within a month, but none of them are on my CV. There was a reminder every week and it was quite brutal, but it happens. "When I lost the job, the amount of goodwill messages I received from owners and trainers was mind-blowing. You feel like you're wanted, but all of a sudden the music does stop and people get on with their lives. The messages stop and you're left with no horses and that's when you have to go to work."