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'It's just the feeling he gives you, it's some adrenaline rush - I've never sat on one as good as him before'
Deputy Ireland editor David Jennings sits down with Irish champion jockey Colin Keane, now Juddmonte's number one
First, the handshake; on to the usual pleasantries about the weather; then the coffee order – mocha for him, cappuccino for me; a quick spin through the logistics of his new job with Juddmonte; and then we're there. It took less than four minutes to get to where you all wanted me to go.
"I knew he was good from his Curragh run, but I thought he was awesome at Ascot. It was a whole different level altogether," Colin Keane says of Field Of Gold, the giant grey colt who has the 2025 Flat season at his feet at the moment.
The fuse to the firework was lit passing the two-furlong pole in the St James's Palace Stakes last month.
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- ‘I’ve never had to deal with that in my career and I did find it hard - you start asking yourself what you’re doing wrong’
- 'I don't want to be part of this narrative that Irish trainers are better than us - I think that's rubbish, it drives me nuts'
- 'The grief hits me quite a lot - so many people think I'm really tough but I get terribly upset by things inwardly'
- 'The numbers went in the wrong direction and you're an idiot if you don't think about it - but you back what you're doing'
- 'My wife wants to know why I'm reading the sales catalogue in bed - it's relentless, but you have to be on it all the time'