Daryl Jacob: Being a Jockey - full documentary

[Applause] hilly serves a strong possibility he's got 10 stone 5 i think on his back you've got quite a few in here yeah bristol is a strong candidate bristol is a very strong candidate to run in the grand national this year he's got obviously 11 stone eight you know obviously cheltenham he'll go to cheltenham first whether he runs in the gold cup or the ryanair that will be ground dependent but um you know please god he can go to i've i'd love to have a crack with him especially over the defenses the way they are now i'd love to have a crack with him internationally you know and i think this year could be his year for us you're just chasing the dream aren't you neptune daryl jacob racing towards the line the dream is to be successful so hunger is you just you just want more and more and more of it when you're here on big days yeah do get nervous hopefully it works out but um doesn't always kelly has like a single parent in a lot of ways because you know once the winter comes around i'm pretty much gone seven days a week [Music] [Applause] you know you go north south east west you're going to be driving for 13 hours a day [Applause] i think we get about 187 quid a ride travelling expenses come out with us so there's lots of times you wouldn't make money at all how close did he come to walking away one little person he would have been gone it is an obsession it's an addiction i'm always trying to be two stone under as to what my natural body weight wants me to be everton literally is building up for that one outcry of joy [Applause] they're mad they're mad to do it it really is a dangerous sport i drove my leg my knee my shoulder my arm and my elbow one of my best friends karen kelly got blessed she's a horse of course he just took a bad fall and that was it i want to try and achieve something for us that he could never achieve that's why fire still burns testify racing on the near side of tier 4 just beginning to inch a little closer under daryl jacob now alongside miss pathwa all right when you're out there in a race you know it's you and the horse against the rest and daryl jacob in the simon munir and isaac sweat colors the green jacket jumps it well when things go right and when horse jumps for you and travels for you i think there's a better feeling in the world and it's larry surge who goes into a narrow lead here under daryl jacob it's the buzz it's the excitement it's the adrenaline it's you know everything's just running through your veins top not four five lengths here in the head of daryl jacob it is really like an addiction the more you have the more you want and the more you'll keep fighting for it and his back-to-back wins in a bit fair chase as jacob punches the air once you've had that first big winner of that first big adrenaline rush you want it again and again and again there's nothing like when women's [Music] everything one ever remembers seconds in a race [Music] it's winning or nothing [Music] we have a dream has had a splendid season and the dream becomes a reality at eighty we have a dream has rumped home in the anniversary under a delighted darrell jacob for nicki henderson cybermedia and isaac suede i'm retained by simon and isaac and you know they're two wonderful people that have come into my life at a very very important stage in my career anthony bromley who again is is one of the best in the business he's our race manager and he buys our horses first and you know i think between the four of us you know we just work as a very very good team they've got 100 confidence in me and what i'm doing and it works for me because um i think i try even on trust yeah so i think next week um nothing monday um i think we're going to run um subtle tuesday without australia and then probably i mean i've been in the business for over 30 years but having worked in the last five years much more closely with the jockey you do take on board a lot more of what's going on and they do need an arm around them a lot of the time and i don't think there's anyone there to do that confidence is such a big thing even with these top jockeys like daryl right group one winners grade one winners you just assume they you know they know they're a good jockey don't they well they have to be told they're a good jockey more regularly than you realise i got one ride for nigel twisty davis my horse today in morotello i think he's got a chance you know he's second favorite in in a four runner race and you know if if the favorite underperforms hopefully we're going to be there to pick up the pieces and on the far side in the two-tone green is burritello muratello looks for a first win over the larger obstacles today so heading down towards the final two fences first flow leads by three legs sitting tight there as daryl jacob out wider as albert's back and then comes destan de jean first floats coming under a little bit of pressure as mouritello starts to close up first flow still well clear second place albert's back a distant third now is muratello and racing up towards the line first flow an easy winner in second place will be albert's back then came muratello who's finishing very tired and destan de jean look at i've been a well-beaten third in the end it's always nice to go and have a winner isn't it but you know unfortunately we have a lot more losers than we have winners you know you just got to look forward to tomorrow that's been and done now and you got to try to look forward to some more and focus on tomorrow now we know he's driven by winning as all jockeys are how does he handle losing uh no not great you could imagine when you see some of the emotion that he's shown when he's won races you can imagine what it can be like when he's just got beat there are days you go to a sand down or you go to an oscar and you're a hot favorite and you come second and he's in bits he wears his heart on his sleeve certainly he'd be more emotional than most jockeys but equally i think he's good that he lets it out because it's the it's those people that are bottling it all up it's worse probably i wake up and the first thing i'm thinking about is i'm always looking for the next good horse to ride alarm generally goes off between half five six leave the house when you know obviously within racing to where i'm going riding out i spend a couple of hours every morning in right now or in school and from a young age i was always under on the road and i always allowed myself you know kind of 15 20 minutes just for in case something was stuck on the road more times or not i've always been 15 minutes early so what you do for that 15 minutes i just thought well i just put my head down and have a snooze i couldn't function if i didn't have it now some of them i get an awful lot of abuse about but i mean i think it's more jealousy that i can sleep and they can't [Music] it's very very important right now the horses have to be trained before they get to a racetrack [Music] i love the connection with horses i love getting to to try and get inside horses minds i love trying to get the best out of horses you know and horses are like humans every horse is different [Music] if you couldn't be excited about getting up in the morning to go and ride the horses that i get to ride on a daily basis you really shouldn't be doing the job [Music] i like horses to know how to jump the way i'd like them to jump i always like horses in a lovely rhythm with me i like them to jump well for me and then if i find them in a rhythm and jumping well then i can start thinking about races with them and put them into races competitively you get into the racing mode then you're 100 focused on how you can get the best out of your horses and how you can get the best out [Music] yourself right average about 70 000 miles a year some weeks you're traveling all over the country you're going to you know you go north south east west and then some days if i've had to drive to air i've had to drive to kels or something you're going to be driving for 13 hours a day sometimes the days into cars they can be very very long they can be very very lonely especially if you've had a bad day yeah look we're on the road an awful lot um so if you're up north for two days rather than going spending six hours going up north coming back down again and then turn around the next morning going back up again look it's easier just to get a hotel that's near the race course or you know one of the race courses and pitching there to our schedule um we only ever really know 24 hours in advance so declarations are done at 10 o'clock you'll find out at half 10 where you're racing the next days so there's no real routine your day can change very very quickly you know over the years unfortunately prize money has declined uh so jackie i think it's about 180 87 quid i think we get um but obviously out of that then you've obviously got to pay your agent and your fuel to get to the races you know physios your insurances you see your tax but sort of i think you probably come out with an average of maybe 90 odd quit a ride or something like that and then you get i think it's about eight percent or something that of the of the winning prize money and then it drops down to about i think it's about three and a half four percent of the of the place money you know i went to clown mel the other day over in ireland drove over got the ferry over i got to the gates at clan mel and the horse was was declared a non-runner because the ground was too heavy we couldn't run it so i mean that was you know traveling to to ireland you know expenses on the boat stuff that and i never it was basically a two-day trip that and you know i never made any money ever they have to be very resilient and it is a tough ask on a jockey there's a lot more to it than just driving in a nice car and turning up and looking flash it does there's a lot more to it than that married to kelly and i've been with her since pretty much i was 19 since i've come over to england she's been an absolute rock to me probably wouldn't be where i am today if it wasn't for her you know she brings up our two kids harry and darcy you know pretty much all winter on her own she's like a single parent she comes with racing with the kids every now and again but you know she keeps herself to herself she's always been that way and you know it's just the way she likes it i think a lot of wives um they've got to be very very strong mentality to cope with us because we're gone seven days a week during the winter and long days sometimes we can't eat so obviously our fuse is a little bit shorter we get beaten on horses we're probably bringing it home as well with us and you know and and they're there and they turn a blind eye to it it's probably a single man's sport but equally it is nice to be able to come home to a family and they can make you switch off i think that's important for him he can't keep agonizing over the ride that day he's got the rides the next day to worry about i'd imagine it's quite a difficult job for him um i wouldn't like to be a wife of a jockey that's for sure so royal edging ahead and the last so royal from brain power's gone unseat david mullins it's obviously a high-risk sport and you know it's it's one fall you're away and from from potential disaster but um you know she's she's been been around me for long enough now and i've had a few injuries and she's you know she's come to the hospital she's seen me in some some bad states before in the past you don't want to fall but it's there that's the danger and that's why we have three ambulances follow us every race they say a jump jockey gets a fall and you know one every ten or eight or something like that so it's you know it's again it's it's we're racing at speed they're mad they're mad to do it it really is a dangerous sport they're taking chances every time they go out particularly over the jumps it was a saturday at sundown i got fall and that done my done my face me eye ice socket um and then went to musker on the monday daryl jacob ben pauling looking for a double on the day leads here with wiener democracy oh queen of the waterfall queen of water has gone there one of the horses just went down to the second last and fell over and it was kind of one of the arsons that came behind me kind of done the rest of the damage yeah got look at the side of my face again um so my looks were probably improved um but just stood on the on the back of my hand or kick the back of my hand so you just sort of broke the main sort of bones in in the back your hand i think i said for about five weeks that was bad timing um missed out all over christmas um boxing day to welsh national there's wonderful races all over the christmas period so to miss out on that was a big blow for me well actually i was brilliant and i spent a lot of time down here and keeping fit in the pool you know the the physios you know the nutritionist the gym guys um they're just managing if we didn't have something you know like here you know you you're off for five weeks you're at home what you do yourself you end up getting heavy you end up getting fat our target nearly every day is to make weights there is pressure because if you can't do the weights you can't obviously ride the horses for me it's similar obsession um it is an obsession it's an addiction i'm i'm always trying to be sort of two stone under to what my natural body weight wants me to be the weight is an issue with all the jockeys uh i know daryl struggles to get those low weights but all the jockeys struggle to an extent with their weight [Music] you know with us we don't really know where we're going from one day to the next so it's you can't really plan anything [Music] you know if i had a couple of pounds to lose i'd run two or three laps at a racecourse and then i could i could lose a pound and a half two pounds if i had to lose any more than that i'd have to lose a in the bath the night before or or the morning horizon obviously some days if i've got to lose three four five pounds obviously you have to miss an evening meal or you've gotta miss miss something the next day now that in itself brings on lots of issues because you you know you aren't eating enough as much as you want you are sometimes dehydrating yourself a little bit as well and you're still driving hundreds of miles perhaps for just one ride which may get well beat um yeah would you talk to her i got down to a certain weight and but i needed news another four ready for this yeah bit of heat all right how much you gotta lose four that's the joys of not having saunas so yeah i know and turnip really had to uh put a sweatsuit on get into the car put the heaters on in the car look it's a couple of pounds you're gonna lose you're gonna feel really good after this so i lost two in the car um in my sweat two and then i went for a run then i lost another two so but look thankfully it was it paid off and and the philly won this is our chill out area hello man hello he's all right all right what's happening up the movie yeah that would be boring come on boy he's playing a bit of pluto let's see get yourself on camera we're still all good friends and we still look out for each other and we still care about each other we all know how dangerous the job is but you'll miss this and there's absolute certainty but like you say when we go on the track it's it's every man for themselves isn't it [Laughter] it's a tough game everyone's wanting the same as what you're wanting you know there's only can be you know 10 jockeys can ride them 10 horses in that one race unbelievable there's always people snapping at your heels because at the end of the day they want they want to be in the position that you're in so they're going to try and challenge you first and he's away top notch from baronelco and racing up the hill and top notch now showing his class the head of daryl jacob an impressive winner of the silly isles novices chase you know you could get in one good horse and that one good horse will take you you know to take it to the next stage of your career bristol takes the silly isles to daryl jacob and nigel tristan davies you've got to keep the momentum going um so you got to try and search for the next one the next one coming through and that's that's what it's all about it's been two brilliant class days for nikki henderson person raffles and darren jacobs you're just chasing the dream aren't you [Music] a sensational dramatic grand national daryl jacob looks to the heavens and this horse has pulled off a remarkable try horse racing was never the the be all for me really none of my family had anything to do with with horses um you know you see a lot of you know jockeys are coming up now through the ranks you know their parents are our trainers are you know they're doing a lot of pony racing i've never done any of that so i was literally starting from scratch [Music] his daddy's photo album daddy who's a little boy i love freckles wrinkles all over you born in uh born in denegal my mom and her family is from tony gold okay my dad he's from wexford he was a deep sea fisherman that's a very very sporty kind of a man even though he was a fisherman he was a sporty man he played rugby to a good level when he was younger and you know he loved hurling and football and stuff and that and he wanted all of us kids to be brought up around sports when i was younger i loved playing rugby you know rugby was something that i was very very passionate about riding um hunters and eventers and stuff that was sort of the second preference to me back then when i was younger but you know i thought if i wasn't going to be a rugby player i'd do something with horses [Music] i went down to a man called jack murphy and when i was in school on weekends and he had plenty of hunters and show jumpers and stuff and there was a a man called dar deacon who was a point-to-point trainer over in ireland point pointing is it's an amateur sport i think point point is a great springboard for any young person that's wanting to be a jump jockey because you're riding over fences and which is the bigger obstacles um you're riding over there and you've got to learn to try and control your horse dar deacon came up to me one day and he said i think he'd make a great jockey and i was like right and then he said yeah would you would you be interested in coming and riding one of my horses and i was like not really no so because i generally i didn't i didn't follow racing he obviously spoke with jack and um jack murphy then i said look just go and ride the point pointers if nothing else it'll shut him up and he won't keep on you i live here as like as if it was yesterday i'll never forget went up the gallops and and i pulled up and i'll never forget daryl's face he was he was gleaming at the top of it you know really excited and how did that feel and stuff and i was like it was okay nothing really burnt inside me you know my belly didn't burn thinking yeah wow that was amazing sort of kind of snowballed from there really jack then ended up speaking to my mom and dad and then it was sort of arranged then really that i was going to go to the apprentice center in kildare that's kieran kelly that's one of daddy's best friends over in ireland so i lived with him for about a year a year and a half and you know whatever karen said to me i just don't i mean he was like i say he took me under his wing a wonderful man to me and um i was getting a few rides in ireland i was doing okay you know not nothing set in the world of light and i was at a little bit of a crossroads really because i was getting i was 18 at the time then and i kind of wanted to be doing something with my life [Music] i'll never forget he said to me he said right you said you're on the boat to to england next sunday said you've got basically you've got a week to tell your parents and i was like what do you mean so you're going to england you're going to richard hannon's and if you don't go he said i'm kicking you out with a house kieran said to me he said when you're over in england i want you to look out for a job i rang here and up when i said to him i said look robert and sally owner they're looking for an amateur um to go point to pointing and stuff and he just said to me says get on the phone now and accept that job and say well hang on i haven't rang them yet and he said just hang up now ring him [Music] the two of them they took me on then so i started with them i think two weeks later and from there really my career has just it's grown and grown every year he started it was point to pointing with you yes i i had two seasons with him and we had our moments such as well like when he broke his collarbone and i had to take him to salisbury hospital and he wouldn't do as he was told but we got through it eventually you know the boss and sally you know they were like you know obviously they were my bosses but they were literally like a modern father to me they took me under their wing you know they looked after me and you know the one thing the boss always did he he nurtured my career he wanted what what was best for me and not anybody else robert had a great influence on him racing and that side of it and i've always been the old mother in the background what was that like i don't really want it okay a pant of mine after that i turned professional um and i went to paul keynes in open mockum and i look i had a wonderful i had a wonderful 10 months with him i think i had 10 winners from 24 35 right but i just didn't i didn't feel the same i didn't i didn't get the kick out of what i was getting that at the honors just for whatever reason i just i didn't enjoy it as much i didn't the fire wasn't there in my belly and yeah just i just felt like i was doing it because i was doing it was a job really how close did he come to walking away from racing when he was a young man very close he only wanted one little push and he would have been gone it took two hours of my time to convince him i think i was more distraught afterwards than he was they got me enjoying it again and started giving me some nice rides and from there the boss got me to ride on the listener and it's the listener a big bold jump on the outside the grey with daryl jacob on board for robert aldner leads from ruby walsh on the inside of war of attrition again it just like you say just went from strength to strength but it is the listener who races up towards the finish out clear to win the lexus and going towards the finish the listener wins for robert ulner and daryl jacob got fantastic front-running performance that was the horse that put him on the map he just grew in confidence he never changed from being daryl but he grew in confidence and he just had natural ability except one day at wincanton he looked round two or three times when he was winning and then he fell at the last he didn't look around again for some time robert straightened that out a bit [Laughter] the whole way through my career i've been very very lucky is in that i've landed on one or two good horses that just keep propelling me to the next stage of my career you know i suppose if you go back to the boston sally it's got to be free gift um very much to stand out horse um from there you know getting the listener and then picking up the riding on the listener and then a horse that a wounded horse to me when i went to nick williams from there was a horse called rev de savola who won four or five grade ones on there's rafters several on the near side mowing the boat down and rarely similar gets up to win for nick williams and daryl jacob he kept me going and obviously international on neptune collage every jockey when they get into the game you know they all want to be a part of that history of of the gold cup of the grand national you know every jockey wants to ride in a grand national every jockey wants to ride over them um unique fences it's a very very difficult race to win [Music] neptune collage even though he was 33-1 i never felt like as if he was 33 to one shot for the 2012 running of the john smith's grand national for the first lap i knew it i'd struggled because of the pace of the race i knew from riding horse at home i'd never ridden him on a racetrack but you know watching his races previously i knew he hadn't got the legs that he once had he jumped the first four fences really well and i knew then it's right i've got i've got the horse in a nice rhythm according to pete was over in fifth followed by sunny old boy in six calgary bay is in seven neptune collages innate towards the outside and all i had in my mind is don't worry about the race don't worry about the race rhythm jump rhythm jump the horse himself to be fair once we jumped the canal turn you know he started jumping his jump and then got slicker got better and he sort of every fence he sort of passed one or two horses out in mid-air i really again i already really started thinking about that i was actually in a race when i came around the canal turn and straightened up for sort of the last six fences turn from home the final fence to the grand national and on the outside sunny hill boy and on the inside of him that is the first two neptune collages battling on in third the whole way through his career he was a brave horse he would literally run through a brick wall through that horse and he tried like know where the horse tried that day and whether he knew where the winning post was or not i i hadn't got a clue but um he definitely got his nose down at the right time sunny hill boy with neptune on the outside bearing down [Applause] [Music] i knew it was close i knew it was ghost i said to richie um well um obviously richard mclaren was on the other horse i said well what are you thinking and i was hoping and praying that he was going to say you've won he didn't say a lot that is as close a george smith grand national as you will ever see the photo finish there might have been only 30 seconds for it to be announced but i promise you know it felt like a hell of a lot longer than that it felt like as if it was never going to come there's daryl jacob has he won his grand national has he come agonizingly close first number four [Music] [Applause] and then when he announced that you know the number i was just yeah i couldn't contain myself it was it was an unbelievable moment in my career yeah people ask me all the time how did you feel and stuff that and it's very very difficult to to say how you were feeling because there's adrenaline there's emotions there's you know the success the you know there's everything literally is building up for that one outcry of of joy there any jockeys who can say that that they won the grand national is is probably the pinnacle of their their career isn't it a lot of people will you know when you speak to that like what you do and as a profession and say oh i'm a jockey you know one of the first questions they'll ask you have you ever ridden into grand national and you can say yeah i have actually and you know i've been lucky enough to win the grand national it all of a sudden it's a grand national it catches the public's imagination everybody was cheering him we were all very proud of him and yes i think we had a drink or two on that i've been very very lucky the whole way through my career i've i've had wonderful people look after me i've had wonderful people that have kept me grounded through everything um and i've had a fair share a lot of disappointments along the way as well so i know you can never get too high up in this sport because it's got a funny way of bringing you back down to earth again [Music] it's our olympics it's uh it's everyone's dream to ride winters around here and it's a very very special place and there's a lot of history involved here and riding winners around here you know all the all the top horses all the top jockeys all the top trainers they've all all been here road winners around here like you say it's it's a very very unique place zarkando now has taken the lead from daryl jacob but over the final flight zarkanda just had the lead to go on the way towards the near side and accompanied over on the far side trying to stay off they've got 150 yards to go and up to the line it is zarkandar who is going to win the triumph hurdle first winner was um a horse called zakanda for paul nichols in the triumph and then i won on la fontaine as well they've got a half battle to go tyler and daryl jacob on the near side just a nose in front it's going to be tight black fontana wins the county [Applause] [Music] it was a great moment great joy always no matter what whether it's a great one or whether it's a handicap it's always very very special to write a winner around here at the cheltenham festival had that was in cloud nine and all of a sudden i've gone from pure joy to disbelief i suppose in in a half an hour well the runners approaching the start for the albert barton offices hurdle but we have some news of an incident involving port mellon and daryl jacob in front of us here's what happened and the horse hanging and crashing through a set of running rails um just can't turn down to the start on port melon and he veered went off trail and uh he went into a camera and daryl jacob taking a really nasty fall here brought my leg my knee my elbow my shoulder i didn't feel any pain at start because all of all i was thinking of i had good rides to be honest with you i thought it was all right i thought you know i was trying to get up on my feet and i was trying to get up i thought you know give it a rest for half an hour and i'll be ready to go on the second last race again and obviously the paramedics they seen a little bit different side to me they they wouldn't let me get up my elbow was completely shattered so they put a lot of wires in my elbow just to so i can get some sort of movement back in it again because it was obviously in a fairly messy old state you hit the the wires the wires hit the nerves the nerves and you know the bones and everything so you know and it gets a little bit of filling a bit of swelling there at times once you're lying in that bed and you're thinking you're you're counting down how fast can i get back that's the first thing that you're thinking about right i need you know i want to get back asap how do i get back asap the longer you're out you know the the more guys you're gonna you know get on your horses and ride winners in your horses and it's very very difficult when someone has wins on them it's very very difficult to get back in them horses so you know the way you narrow it down is if you get back as soon as you can it gives less guys chances to get on your horses if that makes sense and then obviously that's kieran kelly i'm seth and karen kelly used to obviously ride out we used to live with each other an awful lot maybe my career might have started off it wasn't for him so um you know he could talk all day and all night about him he's just a wonderful guy yeah just a horse some force he just took a bad fall and that was it fortunately he just fell and god bless and loved it taught me everything really [Music] well i've got picture in my car in my room i've got quite a lot of me do you ever when you're driving up and down the motorways do you ever do you ever talk to him yeah quite a lot yeah what do you like to tell him i just it's obviously the usual to see how he's getting on i still believe he's he's up there he's looking down at me and he's wanting every bit of success for the two of us when in your career have you thought of him and perhaps thought every day this achievement is for you every day you won the grand national in 2012 fabulous achievement how much did you think of him then that was for him sorry you know when i lived with him and stuff for that you know we used to watch the national and he always said to me that's one race that's one race i want to win and then it was just it was just so happened that it was you know thankfully i won it and i just thought i'd share that moment with him really whenever he died i kind of wanted to do something that he obviously never could achieve and that's why i suppose the fire still burns [Music] right team kev's already look he got the club out and he's ready to swear baby oh he nailed it that's a very good thing that we do and every year himself kara kev and dan we play overcast comb the manor house beautiful golf course lovely scenery over there and it's just kind of a sort of a chill chill out before you kind of get really into the stress and you know of of childhood festival really peach i always want to go out there and i always want to beat the boys but you're not just beat them but just beat them ugly dan tuck who's obviously um he's a pro golfer and he also does the cooperative over us uh cassie coombe and kappa kev obviously he's a he's a carpet fitter and he's uh you know me and him have been very good friends for god knows how long that must be 10 11 years well he's not going to get this does he thank you no chance right edge oh it is oh him robbery appreciate that quarterback chromeboy two very very good guys and totally different profession to what i do and you know it's sometimes it's nice just to get away from the bubble of horse racing um i've known that for i don't know like 15 years from now i expect uh we might have a golf course didn't stop moaning you know they take the piss out of me and and i take the piss out with them and it's like you say it's just you know three guys going out there and hitting the ball and having a bit of fun oh that's fat hit the road hit the road how fat was that i played really well and you know my putting was good and yeah no i hit some really nice shots there so uh you know i'm i love my golf i mean if i could play golf seven days a week i would met darryl back in 2011 uh funnily enough golfing and i think since then i think he's only had one cheltenham winner he did win a grand national so i think you could probably say that i've been pretty unlucky on him oh that is class the last week before cheltenham you know i'm literally thinking about children festival every night every day every minute every year the whole year is is sort of geared up towards the cheltenham festival every jockey wants to be go there injury-free you know full of confidence the horses coming through their trials really really well yeah skinny jockey they would at the start of the week they take any winner to take one winner it could be the difference between a good season and a bad season it's been a yeah hit the crossbar sort of festival for daryl and the green colors the first year he rode for simon isaac in the triumph hurdle of that year daryl had been riding top notch because he'd been winning on top notch at other tracks but going over the last daryl thought he got it won on top notch and just caught him was peace and cohen barry garrity top-notch will have the lead over the final flight his stable mate to the near side is peace and go with a high head carriage but he's been delivered to perfection by barry garrity he goes on by an egg six wins in the tron for nikki henderson it was peace and co who beat top notch there was a number of seconds still more to come and we have hit the crossbar for daryl in quite a number of years now times [Music] it's a very important day for the horse and for us as well and you know we need to find out whether we genuinely think he's a champion heard horse or not he's had a good season so far and uh this is kind of one of the roads that lead to the champion hurdles i think if he's got to go to chatham and we think he's got a really good chance he'd like to think he's good enough to win this race today he's about to turn and face the starting tape el dorado allen john joe neal jr is in yellow and black on the grey and he would be about a neck ahead of favourites odds on chance call me lord call me lord looks to very narrowly taken third now from el dorado allen in the yellow and black with very little between them now it is kel destan and who move on towards together and kill this stan is just in front of call me lord as they take the final obstacle and as they run up to the line kale does stan and harry kopter leading by two and they stay in front to win they turn over call me lord i thought i'd come down and have a winner and you know that you know horse to go to cheltenham with a real life chance he's got beaten so that's obviously dented his his sort of cv going into the cheltenham festival so it's very very disappointing when these horses get beaten but you know unfortunately it's part parts of the game we've got to dust ourselves down we've got to go again we were a hot favorite but um beaten fair and square we're now scratching around trying to find chances that we've got a squeak of you know bristol de may gold cup um killer starting handicaps you know uh constituting the mayor's novice you you're looking you know we've got some squeaks but it's not looking as as rosy as it was prior to christmas [Music] now to some sad news reaching us this morning the cheltenham gold cup winning trainer robert ulner has died at the age of 76. in a 20-year career he also enjoyed success fortunately has been a very tough week for a lot of people in racing really um you know obviously the boss he passed away during the week but you know unfortunately just um he lost his the fight that he had was with his infections and it was a very tough 24 hours for me but um you know i know the boss will never ever be forgotten and you know not to talk to him on a daily basis the same way as you do kim kelly it's always tough losing someone that you love it's um it's always tough the boss has been being like a father figure to me ever since i came over to ireland and he's someone i spoke to regularly you know and i had a lot of i had a lot of love from do have a lot of love for him and he was always there to point me in in the right direction [Music] [Music] you see you never want to get injured and coming up to cheltenham that's for sure um unfortunately it happens because jockeys are going to get false horses are going to fall but yeah leading up to cheltenham you never ever want to get a fall [Music] is and they jump away for this national hunt novices hurdle here at doncaster at the top of the home straight and carlo the others as they race down towards the last the mack on luton chick on the far side of several tickets towards the dawn has fallen after daryl jacob on the ground the whole race just didn't work out for me if i'm being honest with you um and then he's just gone down to the last and he's just met the last one on the wrong stride and he ended up just turning over with me thankfully he got up and he walked away but he just gave him himself and myself a sort of a worse fold and what we we would have liked i hurt my elbow hurt my shoulder and a good good bit of bruising yeah look it just um took a tired fall at the last and thoughts rolled over and topped me and started giving me a bit of kicking the joys it's very very sore but you see you keep going in you got to keep going another ride you've got them riding in another hour's time so i've got to get prepared for that now so you're actually going to ride in the last resort yeah should you be arrested no it's meant to do aren't we jackie's just fermented here i mean we keep riding so i feel fine i feel all right to ride so yeah there's no point in uh there's no point in crying officer it's part and parcel of the game we get forwards we gotta we gotta get up and try dust themselves down i mean as long as you know as long as no brown's broken or anything like that you know we're ready to go again in some cases it wasn't ideal i had a couple of bad falls um some of the horses didn't run up to to what we thought they were going to run up to because it was very soft ground so it probably wasn't the ideal scenario coming to cheltenham but um you got to get on you got to do it [Music] let's just you go to cheltenham you go to entry sand down all them big meetings where there's where there's big crowds and you know and you're coming down to shoot a chat and whatever you know people are shouting your name great ride great this and you know you feed off that kelly how is he today uh yeah i know he's fine actually to be fair he's um he doesn't really get worked up about it it's just another day at the races really and obviously there's more pressure but he enjoys it and hopefully it'll it'll work out i can't describe how difficult it is to ride a winner at the challenge festival it's tough it's every man for themselves i don't normally get nervous but obviously when you're here on big days yeah do get nervous yeah are you confident for him today uh i am yeah you have to be i suppose thank you really and hopefully it works out but um doesn't always yes you want to do the best by everyone involved in it but you put too much pressure on it and it'll end up clouding your judgment we forget that he's never ridden a winner in the double green at cheltenham festival he's written winners at cheltenham other meetings for us and and group one wins all over the place but it has none other children i'm coming forward towards the tape they're off they race away then down to the first of these 20 fences activity you know i've got a good start i jump well for the first four or five fences which is very very important in a big handicap like that if you miss one fence or if you're slow at one fence that could be a race over vintage clouds either side of vindication the conditionals behind those in fourth place and then killed assat i knew in my head what i wanted to do with the horse and what i had to do with the horse to give him the best possible chance of winning the race and vintage clouds together but between them is vindication kill decide in the conditional close up four and five they're running on towards the home turns leading to vindication in second kill decided from my point of view i have no regrets we left everything out there kill this side on the left guarantee come as they come to the second last the conditional and error in fourth position moving the wall to last now vindication [Applause] [Applause] in front no one ever remembers the seconds do they they only remember the winners and at the end of the day you could give give the horse a bad ride and win you know you're still a winner you give the horse the best ride in the world you finish second it doesn't really count does it i think he thought he got the race one at one stage he thought he got it covered um and just got agonized in her agonisingly beat i could imagine him not sleeping that well that night and he shouldn't be like that because he did everything right and the horse ran a blinder but there we are it was a great run but no cigar [Music] i was really looking forward to her she was one of my strongest rides of the week and you know in theory i suppose she was probably my last realistic chance of riding a winner you know she was my last bullet to fire at it i think it's not just that week i think i think it's five years at cheltenham festivals is putting the pressure on it we don't see that but i think he does and they're off for the dalesford mayor's novice hurdle great too the horse just in front of me sort of missed the break so you know for the first two furlongs i was probably a little bit further back than what i want to be then on the inside is midnight's gift after midnight skiff last year's runner-up concertista concertista's being followed by vienna court and there was a little bit of carnage held in front of me actually which kind of helped me because they bumped into each other and then another little gap opened up and my mare was very good she just went straight into that gap [Applause] she came back on the bridle and then it was just a case of of holding her together for us as long as i could meet him they still got a fuller and a half to go and it's dolce who springs the lead in the hands of robbie power over on the far side is concert easter now in second i give her a squeeze going down to the last and she's she's really fireworking up the hall straight and constantine she's emphatically going to win the 2020 renewal it is consent eastern [Applause] i'm so proud i'm so happy just to to win that race and i promise you just that means the world to me concertista has won about as impressively as any horse this entire week broad grin from daryl jacob in the colours of his retaining owners simon munir and isaac swede you know i've had some wonderful winners for them for the last four and a half years i've been working for them but to have a children festival winner for them in their colours i was really proud really really proud [Music] [Applause] the boss is looking down on me today so you know this is one for the boss and uh you know unfortunately he's passed away but it was nice to to get one means a lot you know obviously getting my first festival winner for simon and isaac and anthony and you know the boss passing away it's been it's been a tough sort of couple of months so it's it's fantastic now and it just meant everything it was the fulfillment of a long period it wasn't like a monkey off his back but in his mind it was we've got total faith in the jockey but just to have done it on the big stage for us was just great for him you know yeah these obviously the kids done it for me on thursday and i got when i come in the door and did a little present for me obviously when concertista won that win for me will be right up there once i do retire whenever the time may come you know i think i look back on it with a lot of satisfaction [Music] now we have uh emily shepard on sweepy whenever i do decide to retire obviously i'm gonna have a lot more time with the family so obviously from that point of view i think it's going to be very very exciting you know i can go and watch you know harry play football games on a saturday and playing rugby and i can see darcy you know playing on her ponies or whatever career path she decides to go down on and spend a lot more time with kelly one two three go another point i suppose it's it's quite scary because then you gotta go and try and find a job i suppose because at the moment you know riding horses i don't feel like it's a job i feel like it's a it's a pastime it's a it's a love it's you know he couldn't think of any better way to go and enjoy your day got two today yeah that's the class that you did and you came third [Music] that adrenaline running through your veins excitement and nerves everything that runs through you when you're ride north i think it's going to be very very difficult to replace fire still burns to to ride good horses to to ride big winners to to achieve the targets that i've sent myself if you want something badly enough you know you'll keep fighting until you achieve it and that's what i want to do i want to keep going keep going and keep going if i can get out of the game and touch wood in one piece and achieve everything that i want to achieve there can be no regrets then can there [Music] you

Channel: Sporting Life

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Keywords: horse racing, documentary, cheltenham, grand national, jockey, winning, career threatening, glory, jumps, jacob, injury, inspiring, behind the scenes, insight, life as a jockey, stables, schooling, professional athlete, training like a pro, sport, blood sweat and tears, irish racing, ireland, sky bet

Id: 8M3KP9_LAJY

Length: 58min 43sec (3523 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 17 2021