Davy Russell

I have no interest in losing any weight.

Yeah, and the thing with jockeys is they must weigh in the exact weight they weigh out.

so there's okay there's a little bit of leeway and when I say a little bit I'm talking about ounces of leeway so it's not like a boxer can cut weight but put it all back on before he fights our fighting weight is we come in exactly the same weight we go out okay

If it's across the board for every jockey, if there's raining or if it's muddy, that's fine.

But if your weight is any different to the rest of the riders in the race, then there's an issue.

So you have to be your exact weight going out.

There's no let up.

And the issue I used to have was it was fine cutting weight.

if it was your first or second ride of the afternoon.

But when you're cutting weight and it's your sixth or your fifth ride of the afternoon, that's quite draining throughout the afternoon because you can't,

When you're putting in the effort in the first couple of races, you can't fuel that, you know, so and you probably still have probably half a pound to lose.

You never rarely get to the races when you're doing a minimum weight that you will be your exact weight.

You are allowed to lose another half pound or so during the day.

Yeah, I am.

I love my biscuits.

But it used to play in your mind.

It used to play in my mind an awful lot, the weight thing.

And to be fair to Michael O'Leary, he spotted that from an early stage and he wanted me to raise my minimum weight.

And I think I felt when I did that, I was a much better person.

Yeah, much better, yeah.