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Chalk It Down, Dresden

also trying to get on terms,

they make the run down

towards the final fight...

And Dresden is down! Dresden is down,

and that has left Chalk It Down in front

in the hands of the champion jockey.

And going towards the finish,

is Chalk It Down who will chalk up

his first win over hurdles.

May be lucky.

Chalk It Down the winner,

Fancy King second,

Braccus third

and Lucky Prince of Valley bring in.

You kind of set yourself goals,

I was thinking if I rode 20 winners in May,

then that would be good, you know?

And you're getting there now?

Well, I've ridden 21, so I'm thinking now,

hopefully, I can ride 30 winners in May,

so the goal posts have changed quickly.

I'll be disappointed if I

don't ride 30 winners.

If I don't ride nine more in May you know.

And what happens if you don't?

Uh, that'll be

a bit of a failure, won't it.

I do worry about maybe

not being as good as I once was,

or not having as many winners

as I should have done,

or worrying that people might think because

I've had a lot of success in the past

that I might not be as hungry

to have it again, you know, so.

Or they might think that,

you know, his time is up,

he's not as good as he once was,

which happens to every sports person, so.

I will give it a go, and try to ride my

fastest ever fiftieth winner if I can, um,

but, also, I wanted to be champion jockey

this year,

'cause if I am, it'll

be my twentieth season

and, um, you know, that's something I could

never have dreamed of being able to do,

so this season will be harder than any

of the others to try and achieve that, so.

Tornado Bob from Don Quixote...

is rallying on that flat.

Tornado Bob, Don Quixote with that...

On the line.

McCoy getting it on close.

His fastest ever 50.

Don Quixote gone up in the shadows...

Does it mean

that he's got a target in mind?

Maybe that magic number of 289,

his best ever season tally, perhaps even

getting to that magic 300.

What an achievement that would be.

Is this realistic this season?

I think it is, there's no

doubt about it, he's got to the fastest 50,

he knows he's ahead of his schedule,

he'll have that marked.

Now his next target will be 100,

then the target after that 150,

then 200, then 250,

and then that magic number.

This time of the year,

he comes maybe once or twice a week really,

just to school all the young horses, and

even the older ones just to give them a pop.

Ah ya do, yeah.

I need this for a week, wouldn't it?

To be fair, to get in properly.

So he has an idea of which one he would

choose to ride if it came to that, you know.

You're gonna pop on Monday Gold first,

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