Joe Fanning: 'If I'm doing light I'd probably just miss breakfast - I feel sorry for the lads taking pounds off every day'
Andrew Dietz talks to the veteran jockey still going strong at the age of 53
It's not the most glamorous location for an interview, but meeting Joe Fanning at a services in Wakefield is actually quite fitting.
Not only has Fanning gained an encyclopaedic knowledge of the stop-off points on Britain's motorways in a riding career few can match for longevity, but he is a man always on the move.
Following a late finish at Newcastle the previous evening, the veteran jockey, who turned 53 on Sunday, the day after a cherished big-race win in the Ayr Gold Cup, was up at 6am mucking out at his Middleham farm before heading down the road to ride work for Charlie Johnston.
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