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Former jockey Jimmy Ting still riding work as a trainer – ‘I don’t want to be too fat’


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There are two reasons Jimmy Ting Koon-ho still rides his horses in work over 15 years after retiring as a jockey – it helps him get to know them and it stops him from getting “too fat”.Ting was a jockey in Hong Kong from 1988 until 2003 and says he is only about eight pounds (3.6kgs) heavier now than he was during his time in the saddle, weighing in at roughly 120 pounds.Now in his first year as a trainer, the 45-year-old regularly rides his horses in gallops.“I like to keep fit, I don’t want…

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