I’VE only been riding as a conditional (jockey) less than a month, so hopefully that first winner last week (Miss Lia) will be the monkey off my back. Garry Cribbin has been doing great work as my agent, so getting the first one out of the way might make his job that bit easier. It’s still so fresh in the very early weeks but hopefully I can build on that win over the coming months. 

I got into racing through a first cousin of mine, Rachel Murphy. Now married to trainer Paul Kiely in Dungarvan, she would have been the closest within my family to have an interest in horses. With Rachel being a bit older than me, I would have followed her around as a kid; going into the different yards where she was riding out. I would have went to lead rein classes when I was small then got my own ponies in primary school. I started off with the Killinick Pony Club before later hunting with the Killinick Harriers.