'Buying winners I suppose means you could say I'm training by accident'

Matata was my first four-year-old maiden winner at Tallow last month, which was a big achievement, but training is not a route I had always planned to go down.

My father Jeff rode as a professional for a long time and rode about 150 winners in the 1970s and 80s. He retired before I came along but my brother Brian was riding as a conditional when I was growing up, so racing was always around me from an early age.

When I was old enough I was going into yards with my father, but I didn’t do much riding until I was 14 or 15.