From torture to triumph - how Power turned his spring around
David Jennings charts the rise of this year's festival sensation
The last Friday in January, early evening but already dark. My iPhone flashes on the way home from the office. An incoming call from Robbie Power. "All right Rob, how's things?" I answer, my voice quivering ever so slightly anticipating a bollocking about something I might have written about him. These jockeys can be sensitive souls, you know. "Not good," comes the reply. I'm rightly screwed now.
"I'm going to be out for a while," Power says. "I've suffered a paracentral left-sided disc bulge from my L5 to S1. I'll be out for four weeks anyway, it could be six. Hopefully I'll make it back in time for Cheltenham. I should but it's awful sore. You might put it in the paper."
I watched every race on Thyestes day at Gowran Park (backed plenty of losers too) but didn't recall Power falling off anything. "I'll get that in tomorrow's paper, Rob, but how did it happen?"
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