I ended up riding 14 winners for him that season – 2020/21 – and then in April 2021, I broke my back in a racing fall. “Graeme said that if I could ride five winners for him before December that season, that would be great. She moved on to work and ride for Graeme McPherson, where she rode as a conditional jockey. That winner was in May 2017 and to-date, Lilly has recorded 57 winners under Rules. “Fergal got me going on a lovely horse called Creevytennant, who provided me with my first winner against professionals under Rules – that horse really got my career off the ground.” He said to mum, ‘it’s hard work but if she can stomach it, she’ll be fine’.
He told me to go to his with my mum and we sat down and chatted about it. “I rung Fergal up and said that I really wanted a job in racing. And that’s exactly what she did.Īt the age of 16, Lilly went to work for Fergal O’Brien. “I said ‘Look, mum, I’ve spoken to the racing school in Newmarket and I can do my English and maths GCSEs while I do a course there’”. “ In the car mum was like ‘what on earth have you done, Lilly?’.” “I went to the headmaster’s office at the end of a school day and told him I didn’t want to be at school anymore and literally pulled myself out of education,” she says.
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