Thornton eyes landmark success

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Andrew Thornton will clock up more than 700 miles on Wednesday in a bid to inch ever closer to achieving his lifetime quest of riding 1,000 career winners.

The 43-year-old, just eight away from joining the elite band of jump jockeys to have reached the four-figure landmark, has three rides, all for Wiltshire trainer Seamus Mullins.

His pilgrimage will take in Market Rasen, where he has two rides – Miss Sassypants in the 32Red On The App Store Mares’ Handicap Hurdle at 2.40 and Sportsreport in the Market Rasen Handicap Chase at 3.50.

The weighing-room veteran will then take the long journey to the south west and the evening meeting at Newton Abbot, where he will …

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