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'I like to think I'll be training one day and keeping going with what Dad built'

Catherine Macrae talks to the jockey about recent trauma and what lies ahead

Josh Moore: 'There's something to keep me interested every day'
Josh Moore: 'There's something to keep me interested every day'Credit: Edward Whitaker

Peter O'Sullevan House is not where Josh Moore would want to be found on a November afternoon in the middle of the jumps season, but a back injury sustained in a fall at Plumpton and a prolonged stay in hospital has dictated otherwise.

The jockey spent more than a week in the trauma ward of the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton waiting for an operation on two fractured vertebrae in October.

Now the 30-year-old jockey makes a daily pilgrimage to the Injured Jockeys Fund's glossy rehabilitation and fitness centre in Newmarket, nestled next to the British Racing School where he once gained his licence.

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