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Opening Statement

If the tension in the Cheltenham weighing room this week starts to get a little too much, then Harry Cobden may well be the man to diffuse it.

“I wouldn’t say I’m a joker,” he tells Standard Sport, the conversation coming about after fellow jockey Charlie Deutsch revealed that, in the usually nervy final minutes before heading out to ride in the Ladbrokes Trophy earlier this season, while others were in game-face mode, Cobden was busy dancing.

“Remember that video going around when Diego Maradona died of him juggling the football in the warm-up and there’s a song playing in the background - was it Opus or something like that?”

Indeed it was, Live is Life being the song in question.

“Yeah, we were playing that! It’s very, very random