I WAS racing since I was born, I suppose. Dad obviously rode and later trained; while Mam is a daughter of Toss Taaffe. My brother Niall (Slippers) was a jump jockey, who won the Grand National, so I suppose I had no other choice really.

At the same time, I was kind of late really getting into it, as I mixed the racing with football for a while. Slippers had a pony when he was younger but obviously there is a bit of a gap between us, so the pony went away for a bit before I got him back.