'There's no point throwing your dummy out of the pram in this game - things can go full circle'
Lewis Porteous talks to Kielan Woods, who is riding the crest of a wave and determined to stay out of the stewards' room
Plans to meet Kielan Woods at the racecourse have been scuppered by the weather and instead it is on his way to Birmingham airport that the chance arises to look back on a turbulent year that ended in style.
"It doesn't look like there's going to be much jump racing before the weekend so a few of the lads have decided to go skiing," says Woods, bound for an impromptu flight to Geneva to meet up with the likes of Sam Twiston-Davies and Jonjo O'Neill Jr.
If his recent form on the track is anything to go by, he will be among the pacesetters on the Alps, having started the new year in the same winning vein as the end of 2024.
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