HAVING started out life as a National Hunt jockey back home in Ireland, I switched to the flat when moving to Britain in 2013 but it is only really since relocating to Australia eight years ago that everything took off.

Now fully settled, with a wife and young family, I have never had any regrets about the decision I took and last weekend Pride Of Jenni credited me with a second career Group 1 winner when landing the Empire Rose Stakes at the Spring Carnival at Flemington.