\u201cThey told me it should only take two to three weeks to heal so I\u2019m hoping that\u2019s the case, as it is that time of the year when things are just starting to [heat] up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grylls dominated the National Premiership last season with 141 wins, $6 million in prize money earned and 15 individual stakes victories, which had him keen to continue that momentum as he operates at the peak of his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year will be my 20th season of riding as I started when I was a 15-year-old,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a great six weeks off at the back end of last season and was raring to go after three weeks back in the saddle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pleased with how things panned out over the past 12 months but I\u2019m at that stage of my career now where I just want to keep building on the momentum I have established.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis time of the year always gets the juices flowing as the better horses start their new preps, as well as seeing the young ones kick off.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have some nice rides to look forward to, and if I had to nominate a horse to follow, it would be Hinekaha for Andrew Forsman.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this will be her year, as she has really matured into her frame and she did some pretty special things during her last campaign that told me she is only going to get better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n
While he may not be able to ride, Grylls has been keeping up his fitness levels with plenty of walking and is counting the days as he waits for a medical clearance to rejoin the race-day riding ranks.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Loveracing.nz news desk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThey told me it should only take two to three weeks to heal so I\u2019m hoping that\u2019s the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[10281,123656,129698,73019,3576,129699,38789,6376,43061,67268,25045,129700,6096,2583,6875,20362,1071,28216,120414,110013,79,16,15,91007,9985,14118,6095],"class_list":{"0":"post-370509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-action","9":"tag-broken","10":"tag-craig","11":"tag-finger","12":"tag-for","13":"tag-grylls","14":"tag-hand","15":"tag-injured","16":"tag-jockey","17":"tag-jockeys","18":"tag-last","19":"tag-mean","20":"tag-national","21":"tag-next","22":"tag-premiership","23":"tag-race","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-right","26":"tag-seasons","27":"tag-sidelined","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-uk","30":"tag-united-kingdom","31":"tag-weeks","32":"tag-will","33":"tag-winner","34":"tag-with"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115085487895184988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}