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Ex-jockey starts new career as a trainer after turbulent past

Tjade Collier: former jockey has set up a training base in West Yorkshire
Tjade Collier: former jockey has set up a training base in West Yorkshire

Former jockey Tjade Collier has had a turbulent time since quitting the saddle, but he has turned back to his passion of racing to start a new chapter as a trainer.

After serving a suspended prison sentence for robbery, Collier is starting afresh and laying down foundations for what he hopes will be a successful training career.

Collier, who since stopping riding in 2011 has also run a cafe in his native Holland and worked for Winx's trainer Chris Waller for six months in Australia, has set up base at his future mother-in-law Vicky Walker's Salter Royd Equestrian Centre in Wilsden, West Yorkshire.

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