Davy Russell

Yeah, yeah, I was pretty much.

So we had a dairy farm to start with.

Dad was a mechanic and we had a garage and motor factors and he bought a farm.

When I was born, we lived in a housing estate just up the road from where we are now.

And he bought a farm when I was about five or six.

But at the back of the garage, there was a field there at the time, and he always had kind of an interest in horses and the odd broodmare.

And then he bought a farm and he ended up in the dairy farm and he always had a mare or two around.

And for some reason, I just I don't know why, but I just was obsessed with horses.

It was just dad said the first words that came out of my mouth were horsey.

Oh, Clare, you learn so much every day as a school day, as they say.

But for most people, you know, it was humble enough beginnings.

It was just...

trial and error and you just done something, you learn from your mistakes and you just got falls and back up again and keep going until you kind of just ended up, things would click.

Any different day you'd be doing, trying different things.

And I was lucky I had an awful lot of freedom when I was small.

So it was a very busy house.

I had two brothers and three sisters, all older than me, bar one.

I had one younger brother.

No, they didn't.

They didn't notice.