Your favorite thing about being
a jockey?
Sitting on top of good horses.
The person in horse racing
you most look up to?
Frankie Dettori.
What is the last musical album
you downloaded to your phone?
Well, I don't really download to my phone, but my
favorite band is a Brazilian group called Roupa Nova.
For a non-native speaker, your English
language skills are exceptional and
you are very articulate. How difficult
was it to pick up the language?
Very difficult. To me, it was a nightmare.
What do you like most
about HKIR week?
It's so nice to have the best horses in the world here,
see them, compete against them, or even better, to
sit on top of them.
If you could go back in time, what his-
torical figure would you most like to
speak with?
My father. He was only alive until I was seven, and
from what I hear from my brothers, he was a fantastic
man. They all said he was a man everyone would be
proud to be a son of.
How would you like people to
remember you?
What I am really is very respectful to everybody. I
work hard and hope people don't think I'm Superman,
because some do, but really, I'm not.
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