Tom Marquand: 'If you don't want to be champion jockey you shouldn't be a jockey at all - it's as simple as that'
Catherine Macrae talks to the top jockey about innocent dreams, title ambitions and foreign success
This interview with Tom Marquand, which was originally published in May exclusively for Racing Post Members' Club subscribers, has been made free to read for users of the Racing Post app as our Sunday Read following the jockey's sensational week at Glorious Goodwood, where superb front-running rides on Quickthorn and Sumo Sam helped crown him the meeting's leading rider.
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A cafe in Maidenhead is not the typical meeting place for one of Britain's leading jockeys, but Tom Marquand has become a particularly hard man to pin down.
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- 'I want to be sick. I want to cry. I want to punch something. My golden opportunity has evaporated'
- 'I've been prepared to put my balls on the line. Sometimes things have worked out. Sometimes they haven't'
- 'Other people look at eyes and ears and fetlocks but for me it's bottoms - it all started with John Francome and it seems as good a system as any'
- Sir Mark Prescott: 'At Ascot, you couldn't see anything wrong with British racing – and yet we know there are terrible troubles'
- Oisin Murphy: 'Having my counsellor is a big help - I don't feel anything I bring to her is too much'