1. When did you start your career as a jockey?

I started my riding career in 1996.

2. Which horse was your first winner?

I remember to this day; Award The Star.

3. Which winner have you ridden at the longest odds?

Delay The Game at odds of 99-1 in the year 2000. That was the race that brought up my first 100 winners as well.

4. What’s the best horse you’ve ridden?

In Jamaica, I will say without a doubt Saint Cecelia.

5. What’s the best horse you’ve seen race at Caymanas Park?

In my time I would say Blumenthal. She was an extraordinary filly who won at various distances and many times carrying lots of weight in her back.

6. Who has influenced your career most?

My mother. Yes, my father like myself was a champion jockey, but everything to do with me becoming a jockey has to do solely with my mother. Her encouragement pushed me to do everything that was necessary to succeed. I have lots of friends from Purple Island where I am from who have been behind me for most of my life, giving me the support to succeed at the career that now earns me my livelihood.

But let me emphasize that without my mother’s meticulous grooming and insistence to succeed at becoming a jockey, I would never have made it. I must also add that there was a stable behind my house and I would from time to time go over to the stable where, in the mornings, I would follow the grooms and take the horse to the track.

But this does not have anything to do with my father, although you may say that because he is my father and a good one at that, he has passed on some of his ‘racing’ genes to me. But whatever to do with my career rests with my mother and friends, although I did go to the track to watch him ride.