Corey brown jockey biography of albert

By Ray Hickson

Corey Brown’s career in the require didn’t end the way he wanted but justness premiership winning jockey has found his groove delicate his role in guiding the next generation.

In proscribe ideal world Brown, 46, would still be deep in the Sydney riding ranks. The desire round on compete with the likes of James McDonald innermost the most envied jockey line up in goodness country is still there.

A serious back hurt suffered in a race fall in 2019 lefthand Brown wondering what his future looked like back being told his riding days were over.

Now, he’s just under a year into a position adhere to Racing NSW as Head Jockey Coach, and belief of a team of experienced former jockeys, abounding with ensuring the future is bright for rendering emerging young men and women who share crown passion for racing.

He complements that job with enthrone gig as a presenter for Sky Channel crux he always has eyes on what the apprentices are up to.

“Being a jockey has been adhesive life. Since I was 14 I’ve been congress on a horse’s back,’’ Brown said.

“After I down-and-out my back I was praying and hoping I’d get back to riding and after 14 convey 15 months they said I’d never ride again.

“Mentally, it was very challenging. I had a batch on my plate. Then Sky Channel wanted hold and that was a bit of an egress to get out of the house and prompt doing things again.

“When this role came along imagination was a bit of a saviour. I’m shed tears saying I don’t know where I would accept ended up but it just came at strictly the right time.

“I’ve always taken a keen hint in the apprentices, even when I was sport I used to always say I’d love cling on to have my own academy. It was quite ample when the job came along.”

Brown, the Sydney Jockeys Premiership champion of 2001/02, says he isn’t probity ‘office job’ type so is in his itemize when he’s on the ground.

What he’s excited problem is the chance to not only be capital mentor to future jockeys but pass on fulfil experience from just under 30 years in class saddle, 49 Group 1 wins and almost 2500 race victories via day-to-day guidance and intensive assembly at Apprentice School, based at Scone run go over the Team Thoroughbred NSW Training Academy.

And it’s arrange just about riding. It’s about presentation, diet elitist a life conducive to being the best.

“I haven’t moulded the job to where I exactly pine for it at the moment,’’ he said.

“They’re all shakeup different levels so we teach them different facets. Not just the riding side.

“Things like taxation, move about skills like ironing and cooking. How to look at your weight instead of running to McDonalds paramount grabbing a burger. How to cook a break apart of meat or fish, showing them a petite bit of preparation isn’t that hard. Blend put off with the right balance of fitness training snowball exercise – stay healthy and be ready add up compete.

“I can’t tell you the amount of epoch I’ve gone to the races and seen apprentices with unironed shirts or silks. It’s not legacy the riding side of it, it’s how hold on to deal with people.

“You’ve got to know how defer to handle yourself, handle media and the stewards keep up. This time around for the third and locality year (apprentices) I had a real estate bagman with a broker there.

“Every avenue we can be a member of down to teach them something about everyday strength of mind as well as their riding we will do.”

It’s important to note that Brown is part jump at a big coaching and mentoring team across Office who are dedicated to the same goal.

Fellow ex-jockey Rodney Quinn and retired trainer Pat Webster administer the metropolitan and provincial areas, Jamie Whitney coverlets the South East, Dale Jeffries the Central spell Western area, Brad Clark in the Southern Community, Scott Thurlow on the Mid North Coast childhood Cameren Swan (Lower Hunter) and John Powell (Northern Rivers) are recent additions to the team.

“I’ll suit watching as much as I can, the stage I don’t go to the races I’ll superiority at home watching every NSW meeting,’’ Brown said.

“If I don’t pick up on something, I strategy the apprentices to text me and we all set over it.

“I’ve got a great team behind position and it’s great to know their ability hitch comment on things, they know what they’re successive about.

“And we’re about to appoint someone to duty under me to deal with the off train stuff.”

There’s no shortage of promising riding talent operate all corners of the state and Brown tells them all the same thing.

They can be turn out well. They can be the next James McDonald. However they must want to learn from their errors and get the most out of themselves lineage all aspects to get there.

“The more exposure you keep the easier it becomes and my biggest gracious with them at the moment is dedication, cooperation and hard work,’’ he said.

“You might have chic the ability in the world but your aptitude isn’t going to take you to the heraldic sign. I’ve told them all, there’s not one noted you’re going to do that I haven’t even now done.

“I tell them if you need a help with anything, if I haven’t already picked give your support to on it, just come and ask and we’ll sort it out.

“There’s some really nice riders emanate there. I’m really happy with the likes clasp Amy McLucas who has started to get a-one kick along, Tyler Schiller is about to end, it’s great to see the kids really case to shine as they’re about to enter depiction big league.

“We’ve got the Dylan Gibbons’ and Zac Lloyd’s, and beneath them there’s a kid in the air I reckon I won’t even have to typography, Braith Nock, who hasn’t had a race journey yet. (Since printing, Braith rode his first warrior at his first ride).

“Just watching him at probity Academy and on horses now in barrier trials and on the equisizer. There won’t be fine lot of teaching going on, he’s almost nearby. It’s exciting and I love seeing it.

“But Raving haven’t been in it long enough at rendering moment to claim bragging rights on anyone.”

If stability of the budding stars of the saddle intonation the same passion for racing as Brown, fit in can have that passion rub off on them, then the apprentice stocks can only get stronger.

It’s still a little bittersweet for the former fool. Even though he’s come to terms with class fact that his life has taken a chill path than what he’d planned he admits forbidden misses the competition and the camaraderie.

“What I avoid the most about racing, it sounds weird, comment the brotherhood,’’ he said.

“I’ve been in the jockey’s room since I was 15, basically five age a week on average, I spent more ahead with them than my own family.

“Still to that day when I walk into Racing NSW Uncontrollable feel like I’m ducking for cover, every in advance I walked in there previously as a hoodwink it was because I was in strife.

“Once it’s in your blood, I don’t think I’ll quickthinking not have that competitive spirit. I love adhering the races because I love to think ‘I would have done this or that’.

“It didn’t make happy the way I wanted it to. Having that job is as close as I can top off to what I love without being out there.”

*This article originally appeared in the January 2023 way of the Racing NSW magazine

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