Derby-winning rider Padraig Beggy: ‘I thought big winners had gone by me’ | Chris Cook
Wings Of Eagles jockey talked after Epsom triumph of a fight to revive his career after ban for cocaine in AustraliaThe troubled passage endured through the Derby by Wings Of Eagles is mirrored in the previously troubled career of his journeyman jockey, Padraig Beggy, who must have feared his days in the saddle could be over when he was banned for a year in Australia at the end of 2014. Entertaining company, as well as a manifestly talented rider, Beggy talked his way into additional trouble after a positive test for cocaine, providing not one but two false explanations before accepting that he had deliberately taken the drug.For a jockey who had been kicking around for a decade or so...