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YORKSHIRE GRIT!
Daily Star
|July 19, 2025
Summer Festival is a massive thrill for injury defier Allan
YORKSHIRE-based David Allan is living proof that jockeys are some of the toughest athletes on the planet.
Five years ago after an unfortunate incident on the gallops, the 43-year-old was told he would never race again.
But he defied medics and is now one of the longest-serving riders at one stable in the entire horse racing industry.
As he prepares to ride in the Go Racing In Yorkshire Summer Festival, he recalls: "I thought it was game over. It happened when I was riding work on the gallops. A pheasant came out of a hedge and spooked my horse.
This story is from the July 19, 2025 edition of Daily Star.
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