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'No better place to learn' - Willie Mullins yard was the perfect introduction

Dan Nevin explains how he's always wanted to be a jockey

Dan Nevin: 'I was thrown in at the deep end at Willie Mullins'
Dan Nevin: 'I was thrown in at the deep end at Willie Mullins'

Both my parents work in racing, my father is over in England and works at Godolphin Stud and my mother works in the office for Jim Bolger.

I grew up with ponies but I have three older sisters so I was always getting the leftovers of their ponies when they were getting new ones!

Since I could talk, all I have wanted to do is become a jockey, there was never going to be anything else. It was that or nothing.

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