Nothing compares to riding a winner at the Cheltenham Festival

Davy Condon was a gifted jockey and he rode many big-race winners for Noel Meade, Willie Mullins and Gordon Elliott. Forced to retire in 2015 due to a spinal injury, Condon, 32, spent over a year working in a pre-training yard in Dubai, but is back working for Elliott and is currently an assistant trainer at Cullentra House.

Holy Orders
Unblest - Shadowglow
Trainer Willie Mullins
Biggest wins Ballycullen Stakes, Guinness Handicap, Grade 1 Ballymore Properties Champion Stayers Hurdle, Vintage Crop Stakes and the Grade 1 Champion Four Year Old Hurdle

Riding your first winner is always special but getting the ride on a good horse in public is even better. Holy Orders was a good horse. He was trained by Willie Mullins and he's the horse that really got me going as I won lots of races on him and got to ride him at many of the big meetings. He took me around the world when I was only a teenager. We were beaten just a neck at Royal Ascot in 2002, he gave me a great spin in the 2003 Melbourne Cup and I also got to ride him on Arc day at Longchamp in 2004. He was a very quirky horse and he could be quite mulish, but Willie did a fantastic job with him.