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The turf

Why racing will miss Barry Geraghty

25 July 2020

9:00 AM

25 July 2020

9:00 AM

When I first began racing, few jump jockeys reckoned their careers would last beyond the ages of 32 or 33. But they last longer these days.

Lying on the Aintree turf, though, after a fall in April last year, with his leg bent impossibly inwards, the 39-year-old Barry Geraghty wondered if that was where it was all going to end for him.

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