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Frankie's horses haven't been running well and Neil Callan has been telling

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Frankie's horses haven't been running well and Neil Callan has been telling him that he can always become his agent if he feels like retiring. How do you enjoy life in the weighing-room? Yes, you're enemies on the track but you have to just get on with that There's a lot of fun in between There is so much stick given out. If I'd had everything he has received, I'd be pushing a pen somewhere No way would I even think of riding again. But he is nearly ready for his comeback now.Jockeys spend minutes as rivals and hours as colleagues. The other jockey who fell at the same hurdle was sick when he saw Seamus I went to visit him in hospital a few days later.

I have never seen anyone with more will-power than Seamus Durack, the jump jockey. He has been off since last summer when he broke a leg for the third time He said he never knew pain before The first twice, it didn't hurt This time he ended up with a foot stuck behind his head. It was like 10 days' riding rolled into one.Tell me about a jockey you admire. I'd been carted off [from Newmarket] to Cambridge shopping and to Waitrose on the way home. A trainer rang me during a day off recently and I admitted I'd rather be riding. How do you spend your time when you're not riding? I just try to relax, though obviously I have to make a bit more of an effort now we have the baby.

That is the only time I'll be rude, the only time I'll blank someone - or worse!You had a rare day off yesterday. Often I won't even have had the chance to speak to the horse's trainer That does rev me up. Not 30 seconds after you have hopped off someone will be sticking a microphone at you asking what went wrong. But remember, it's all split-second decisions.What is the best way to wind you up? Sometimes you ride a horse in a big race, you've been looking forward to it for weeks, and for whatever reason - the ground goes against you, say - the horse doesn't run its race.