\u201cIt is funny because when you get on him on the enclosure, he gets all stirred up and you think he could be a tough ride.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, once you get him out on the track, he is one of the more placid horses you could ride, he is so beautiful.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is very relaxed in his races, he jumps and settles and he just goes through his gears.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe further the horse goes, the better he is going to be and he should get a lot of confidence from Monday\u2019s win.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hellyer collected a winning double on Monday at Toowoomba as Hell Of A Lad from the Phillip Burns barn triumphed in a 1300 metre Class 1 Handicap event.<\/p>\n
A few weeks on from his high-profile fall aboard Southoftheborder\u00a0at Toowoomba, the jockey says he is still blown away by how much attention the video created online.<\/p>\n
He fielded media enquiries\u00a0from England and Ireland as well as from multiple outlets around Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was heartwarming some of the messages I got from people asking if I was OK,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke to lots of jockeys and trainers following it. I couldn\u2019t believe the attention it all got; it was gobsmacking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt is funny because when you get on him on the enclosure, he gets all stirred up and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-479577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115330913626636782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479577","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=479577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}