Bellewstown Update. Going, Jockey Changes and Non-Runners

I'm from Carrick-on-Suir in Tipperary and no-one in my family has ever looked at a horse or touched one! One summer when I was 16, I was mucking out stables up on The Hill (Piltown, Co Kilkenny) for Joseph O'Brien and the Head Lad came up to me and asked if I had ever ridden out. I said I had and that I would give it a go. I got all the equipment and went up the gallop and got a love for it then. I told a fib as I had never even sat on a horse! They copped on straight away that I hadn't ridden out. I couldn't tack up and I put the saddle on backwards! I didn't have a clue.