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I want to train again. So I need owners. But how do I know who to talk to?

The former Newmarket trainer with the latest on his bid to make it in the States

Patrick Gilligan with son Jack in New Orleans
Patrick Gilligan with his son Jack, a jockey in the US, in New Orleans

Clothes Maketh The Man.

I’ll tell you what gets to me about America. Classlessness. They all dress the same. What is it with that? I can’t tell who anyone is over here. You can tell a lot about people by how they dress in Britain. Not here. That means I keep putting my foot in it.

I can’t tell you the amount of times I would return from a set to our barn, there is some guy I haven’t seen before stood around with a belly, wearing a ten-dollar T-shirt and a baseball cap on his head. I breeze past, tell him we are good for hotwalkers today thanks, and then Kenny McPeek walks up to him and greets him warmly, and I find out later this is one of our biggest owners who happened (more by luck thashn anything else I would say judging by that T-shirt) to start a company from scratch and sell it for $100 million. And then he did it all over again (how does a guy get that lucky?).

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