Ryan Moore, teenage son of Woodingdean trainer Gary Moore and his wife Jayne, wants to clinch an amateur riders' title at Ascot tomorrow in memory of his grandad.

Charlie Moore died on Sunday and Ryan will be going all out to secure the Bollinger Champagne Series crown.

Jayne said: "Ryan will want to ride the winner and win the title for his granddad."

He needs to finish ahead of his two most serious rivals, the more experienced duo of Leslie Jefford and Tom Scudamore, to triumph.

Ryan's successes this year had given Charlie, himself a trainer for almost 40 years, tremendous pleasure.

Jayne said: "At least Charlie saw his grandson ride and, in fact, three of Ryan's winners were in Charlie's colours, Barbason twice and Kenino at Nottingham, the only race the horse has won on turf."

Gary has entered three horses for Ryan at Ascot, top weight Wait for the Will, Wasp Ranger and Chalcedony.

The latter likes soft ground while Wait for the Will prefers fast.

Jayne said: "The likely runner is Wasp Ranger who goes on any ground and has more class than the others."

Ironically, Ryan could have sewn up the Bollinger trophy but for a misunderstanding last week when Penalta won the qualifying race at Brighton under Simon Callaghan.

The 17-year-old son of Newmarket trainer Neville Callaghan picked up the ride on Penalta when the horse's trainer assumed Ryan would be riding for Gary.

Jayne said: "Ten days earlier, trainer Michael Wigham booked Ryan and we said okay, but when Michael noticed that Gary had a couple of entries, he went for Simon instead."

Penalta won by four lengths and there's no doubt she would have done the same for Ryan.

Charlie, 74, died almost 40 years after he began training.

He was a hugely popular character, with a sharp wit and a ready smile. He had been ill for 12 months but had survived three heart attacks and a quadruple by-pass in 1988.

Not many meetings at Sussex courses took place after 1961 without a runner trained by Charlie. He had hundreds of winners, mostly with moderate horses who got more of a chance with him than they would have had in a fashionable yard.

He was intensely proud of his children, Gary and Candy, both of whom rode many winners, Gary over fences and hurdles and Candy, stylishly, on the flat.

Among the better horses Charlie trained were Ascot winner Lir and Royal Measure, who won at Cheltenham.

One of his favourites was Bontison, a real worrier who always had a lamb for company to keep him calm in his stable.

When Charlie retired three years ago, Gary moved his string from Epsom to Ingleside Stables where he has been so successful in training both horses and young jockeys.

One tale of Charlie's life was when he was in the army at the end of the 1939-45 war. Hearing that his mum had been given notice to quit the pub that was her living, he went AWOL.

He was soon arrested by the military police and put in a cell for three months.

Jayne said: "It is sad that Charlie didn't hang on to see his grandson ride in the Bollinger final at Ascot tomorrow.

"But he will be cheering Ryan on from the grandstand in the sky for sure!"