The National is about however long it takes to run that race - eight minutes of fame - but champion jockey is about racing 365 days a year. I actually wouldn't swap any of my winners for the National.
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My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.
I've found that my athletes run their best races after about 10 weeks of intense training.
It's a long, hard, difficult process to make it to a national championship.
I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
The Olympics are a world apart from racing for a record. You put out of your mind pretty much what anyone else doing in the race.
I have never won a race, and that is my main disappointment - but you have to be positive.
So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.
I said at the start of the race that the Tour is about being good for 21 days, being consistent every day, not having super days and bad days.
As far as me personally, I guess I'm going to come to the races for as long as I can.
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