The promising young rider Rossa Ryan won a valuable pot at Ascot on Saturday after getting his weight as low as he could
If you made money from the narrow 8-1 success of Apparate at Ascot on Saturday, you should be giving thanks to the dedication of jockey Rossa Ryan, whose entire intake of food in the previous two days amounted to a boiled egg. The 19-year-old told me about the deprivation he put himself through, having learned days before that he was to ride the Roger Varian-trained horse in the Lavazza Stakes, worth £62,000 to the winner.
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