LIFE as a jockey couldn’t have gotten off to a better start; my first ever winner coming in a premier handicap – the Irish Cambridgeshire.

As a young 10lb claimer, I rode Seefinn to success in the Curragh feature for trainer David Hanley. After that incredible start, my career plateaued somewhat in the intervening years, although I did enjoy further big-race success in Britain. At the present time, I have reinvented myself as a trainer here in the US, where I have done very well since taking out a licence.