National Hunt jockey, just like Tom Brady, Phil Mickelson, Victor Costello, Ipswich Town's Leif Davis, Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickenson, Angelina Jolie and Harrison Ford, is a qualified pilot - and he can ride on the wind too.
Sean Flanagan is a jump-jockey who, just like Rachael Blackmore , Patrick Mullins, Danny Mullins and Jack Kennedy, can ride like the wind.
READ MORE: Football In The Time Of War - Ukraine's national team carrying huge weight of expectations Marine Nationale is a straight Novice Hurdler where, to date, he has been all about speed and will most likely take in the Champion Chase at Cheltenham. "I actually rode him a bit previous to his bumper career, I rode him a couple of bits of work and schooled him around Punchestown one of Sundays after racing so I wouldn't be completely strange to him, I'm massively looking forward to it."
"That opened the door for me to go flying training and then, quickly, when I was enjoying it I fell in love with it and I realised 'hang on, if I'm racing in Kerry it is four hour drive and it's a 45 minute flight'. It just makes sense. "Yes, Paddy O'Hanlon is a qualified pilot as well and that's definitely in Ireland anyway. I don't know about UK-based ones but obviously Philip Carberry is a helicopter pilot.
"The most-used brand here is probably a Northern-based company Old Mill and they make kind of to-measure whatever you want, weight-wise and that, and they are very accommodating.
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