‘When you’re in the moment and you’re starved, you’re ready to explode - everything built up and I just lost my s**t’
Richard Forristal speaks to riding legend Davy Russell after the launch of his autobiography
Davy Russell is perched at the granite island countertop in the kitchen of the sumptuous home he shares with wife Edelle and their four kids in the east Cork seaside town of Youghal.
He is shooting the breeze with Ken Budds, a lifelong friend who trains nearby in Killeagh. They've always trucked about together, and Budds features prominently in the first act of Russell's recently released autobiography.
Budds's brother Martin died in a car crash in 1997 and Russell's trademark big-race victory routine of raising his arms aloft, looking to the sky and gently flapping his hands was in honour of him, a tribute that had its origins in the 1994 bull-riding film, 8 Seconds.
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