'I needed a good year - I'd have been dead and buried otherwise'
Lambourn correspondent James Burn talks to the thriving trainer
Everyone knows the stresses associated with training racehorses, but the perils of the profession cannot be blamed for Owen Burrows' hair falling out.
"I was riding at Huntingdon one day and Gary Lyons, a jockey who was going bald, went round the changing room," the Lambourn trainer says.
"'Yeah, you'll be all right', he said to one lad, 'You will too, you're a bit dicey', and he got to me and goes, 'You're stuffed'. I didn't know what he was on about, I had masses of hair! He gave me a complex for a couple of years, but he was right and I was only 26 when I started shaving mine."
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Published on 24 August 2022inInterviews
Last updated 09:34, 25 August 2022
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