Channel 4 Racing Star to Divorce; Stable-Girl at Centre of Split

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Byline: Richard Kay

AS THE face of Channel 4 racing, she deftly charms the most difficult of jockeys. But behind her easy smile, Lesley Graham has been hiding turmoil in her private life.

Lesley's marriage to former trainer Neil Graham has collapsed, and she is naming her husband's one-time head stable-girl, Julie Voules, in her divorce papers.

What's more, the couple find themselves locked in a bitter domestic struggle because, somewhat inconveniently, they are both still to be found living at the same address -- a ten-bedroom former rectory in Norfolk -- albeit in separate quarters.

According to friends, Neil, 50 -- who used to work for …