I'm from Clonalvy in Co Meath, a small rural area. I got into horses through my uncle James Harford. He always had horses down in the yard two minutes away from the house. They could be hunters, pre-trainers and breakers. When I was younger, I went down there and helped him out by riding a few quiet hunters around the roads. Then I got my own pony and that's how I got started. From there on, I did want to be a jockey. When I was younger I played a lot of soccer and gaelic, but from kind of eight or nine years of age when I got into horses, I wanted to be a jockey.