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Adrian Maguire: 'I couldn't borrow, borrow, borrow - I wouldn't sleep at night'
Ireland editor Richard Forristal catches up with the legendary rider
It's lunchtime on a crisp winter's afternoon but Adrian Maguire's day is already eight hours old. The alarm went off at 4.45am and his tour of duty began with a journey of just shy of 100km from his home in Laharn Cross, County Cork to Rosegreen in neighbouring Tipperary.
It's a long way to go, but five regally bred lots in Ballydoyle keep the wolf from the door. This is Maguire's routine five or six days a week. Maybe it's not what we imagined jump racing immortality would look like but sepia-tinted memories don't pay the bills.
Maguire's great foe Richard Dunwoody embarked on polar expeditions and traversed the globe on daredevil escapades across new frontiers in his quest to fill the void left by race-riding.
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