Festival sees a day of Micks’ emotions

IT WASN’T a great day for the Paddies but the Micks did all right. Last summer, jockey Mick Fitzgerald broke his neck in the kind of accident that would lead lesser men to a desk job.

Festival sees a day of Micks’ emotions

Yesterday, the Wexford man barely broke a sweat when he brought Fondmort over the finish line with the kind of cool reserved for refrigerator maintenance men.

"When I was lying in hospital with a broken neck I didn't think I'd be back at Cheltenham, never mind riding a winner," he confessed.

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