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  • 11
  • 2012
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What went on at Da Jesters and getting on the score sheet

It has been a hectic few weeks getting Da Jesters organised but I’m glad to say it’s all over now for another year and it was a great success. We raised £2,668 in total for The Injured Jockeys Fund which...

  • May
  • 10
  • 2012

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  • May
  • 04
  • 2012
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Racing, Stress, a Sneaky Pic and a Poem

Out with the old and in with the new!  Last season finished on Saturday, and I fell one winner short of my target of ten, much to my annoyance and only I had 163 rides but I did stay relatively...

  • Apr
  • 27
  • 2012
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End of Season, Injuries and the Future of the Weighing Roomm

It’s Wednesday and it's one of those days where after galloping a few horses, in the driving rain at Towcester, I had organised a game of golf as I wasn’t racing. However, due to the rain and waterlogging, I had...

  • Apr
  • 12
  • 2012
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0pen Day, The National, Shaggy and Da Jesters Nominations

A busy week has pasted with The Lesters, The Lambourn Open Day and Bank Holiday racing. I passed on The Lesters this year as I tend to go every 2 years. I heard a cracking night was had, with most...

  • Apr
  • 03
  • 2012
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Dentist, Sheehan, Da Jesters Nominations and Big-Boy Bolge

The past week I’ve been flat out, riding out and racing, taking me to all parts of the country. All my mounts got placed, but no winners, and that has now left me one behind Mark Grant in our bet...

  • Mar
  • 26
  • 2012
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Noel ‘Festival’ Fehily, ChampDAwG, Baldness and Da Jesters

Some really cracking racing last week, with tight finishes, some class horses and a little bit of controversy! Yes, I attended Stratford, Huntingdon, Towcester, Fakenham and Ffos Las where the real action was…  Now the reason I was there and not...

  • Mar
  • 09
  • 2012
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Cheltenham preview, Londoners, Tinkler admiring himself and a toss of a coin…

Soccer AM silks or Torquay colours?   Well ,i went from having a very busy week 2 weeks ago to drawing a near blank last week where i just had the one ride at Taunton. It was on a horse...

  • Feb
  • 20
  • 2012
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Winners, 'Scrooge' McCarty and the Fehily family

Seventeen days had passed in February with no ride due to the snow and frost so it was great to get back into action on Friday at Fakenham. When you’re off injured as a jockey all you work for and...

  • Feb
  • 14
  • 2012
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'Da Bald' Grant, hunting and what happens when you beat me!

We missed the best part of six weeks racing last year due to snow and freezing weather and, having got through the toughest months of December and January, I thought we were going to be ok this year. How wrong...

About David

Hay, I'm David or Dave Crosse and I'm a professional Jumps jockey originally from near Cashel, Co Tipperary. I am now based and have been for the last 14 years in Lambourn in Berkshire - the home of Jumps racing.

Racing has been going well for me this season and I hope to make a big impact this winter when the proper jumps racing starts. I've been through the mill with injuries down the years but nothing that has ever stopped me getting back in the saddle. I've probably broken bones in places people didn't even realise they had bones.

I'm going to take you through what I get up too on and off the track, and try give you an insight of a jockey's life and the craic we have 24/7.

Being a Jumps jockey is a dangerous game but to me its the best game in the world. I look forward to sharing the craic we have in the weighting room with the Lovetheraces and Attheraces readers. It a side of the sport that very few people see so its going to be pretty special.

So here we go...

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