The former Bull Knight who takes the first group 1 opportunity in his passage

“It has always been there, it was just a matter of when,” he said he became a jockey.

“I kept there for a while. At the beginning, when I was only about 16 years old, I went to do it and then I moved away, then I went back again.

“I was still around a bull probably six months in my apprenticeship. You can bring it to the next level and earn a lot of money if you are very coherent, but it is probably not the best way to make money. It can be dangerous, somehow the same, I suppose, but you don’t come paid so much.

“I think I am among the top 10 or something like that at the PBR finals (professional bull-rides).

“I won many titles like Junior, like less than 18 years old, and then I went to Canada for the PBR. I only did it for a year and went to Canada and America when I was about 18 years old for other events.”

After competing at the highest levels in that dangerous sport, Nock took the pressure of the race on horseback.

“I think it’s a bit of an addiction, you get adrenaline and I suppose that if you do it every weekend you get used to you,” he said.

“It is practically the same (how to ride a winner). Only that adrenaline race. That winning sensation, there is nothing better.”

Mostly cloudy, a possibility of $ 51 Sportsbet with Gate 10, was 18th in the Melbourne Cup last year and arrived third in his last two departures, including a race of the last part in the Roy Higgins list listed in Flemington.

“I saw some of his replays and tends to come back a little,” said Nock.

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“It is a step forward in the classroom, but it runs away. I have not yet spoken with the coach, but it seems that most of the time it is only fortunately, and I think that if he has had the right race he has the opportunity to run there.”

He said that going down to 50 kg would be a challenge, but he was confident of making the cut.

“Now I am 52 years old and I usually ride around 53,” he said.

“I didn’t ride down. I didn’t have to.”