John Tapp Racing

If there’s a single positive about Nick Heywood’s current injury layoff, it’s the fact that we were able to pin him down for an interview. He talks about the inevitability of accidents and the fact that jockeys have to come to terms with it.   Nick talks about the vagaries of racing luck and his early winning double on the day of his Wagga race fall.   He looks back on the unusual nature of the fall that left him with a fracture to the tibia. Nick looks back on two good seasons, and his resolve not to waste an opportunity. He takes us through the pristine eating measures he has to endure to stay in the saddle. The jockey talks about his marathon runs around the streets of Wagga, and his heavy trackwork schedule. Nick gives us one prime example of the mileage he travels to bolster race day opportunities. Heywood talks of his initial apprenticeship to Peter Clancy at Leeton and a transfer to the Wagga stables of his father Chris Heywood. He looks back on the thrill of his first winning ride at Deniliquin, on a