Barry Geraghty: 'You don't want to be greedy and pay the price'
The jump racing giant speaks to Richard Forristal following his retirement
On the day after the 2019 Randox Health Grand National, Paula Geraghty pointed her car in the direction of Tallaght University Hospital.
Her intrepid husband Barry had suffered what he would subsequently describe as the worst fracture he ever endured, with his lower right leg bent inwards, after Peregrine Run crashed out at the third-last fence in the Topham Chase.
It would require a steel frame to secure the tibia and fibula, including the insertion of four wires and three screws. Four years earlier, he did something similar to his left leg when Sailors Warn crashed over hurdles at Downpatrick. In between, he smashed his right and left humerus, the latter coming less than a fortnight after his return from a clatter of broken ribs and a punctured lung in 2017.
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