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'This job has been a holiday for 20 years and I'm not ready to go home yet'
Graham Dench meets one of the weighing room's elder statesmen
Paddy Brennan: 'I'm realistic enough to know I'm not going to be champion jockey'Credit: Alan Crowhurst
When Paddy Brennan looks around the changing room he's unlikely to see more than two or three riders on any given day who were there when he joined Paul Nicholls from Jim Bolger nearly 20 years ago.
The retirements of Noel Fehily and Wayne Hutchinson last year leave only Richard Johnson, Leighton Aspell, Tom Scudamore, Dave Crosse and Mattie Batchelor as regulars on his patch from those early days.
At 38 he is the same age as Hutchinson, but he won't be joining him any time soon. Not by choice anyway.
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