'I'm semi-retired now but I have more time to enjoy my racing and blow the kids' inheritance!'
Jerry Wright has been an owner for more than 30 years – all thanks to an advert in the Racing Post. Cheltenham Festival winners Tiutchev and My Way De Solzen have been his best horses, as he explains to David Carr.
I don't have the obvious profile of an owner, as a working-class lad from Wigan brought up in a household with zero interest in racing.
My racing passion was nurtured after I left home for university as my halls of residence were a stone’s throw from Leicester racecourse – the jumps meetings there soon took priority over law degree lectures.
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Published on 11 February 2023inHow I Became An Owner
Last updated 18:53, 11 February 2023
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