Andrew Fortune – A rare talent
Jockey Andrew Fortune dropped a broad hint that retirement is on the horizon after making all on the Ramsden-trained Miss Saigon at Durbanville on Saturday. This was the 2008/09 champion’s first winner since January and only the second ride of his latest comeback.
He said: “Hopefully I can give it one more stint and then maybe in a year or two call it a day.”
Weight is the 47-year-old’s problem and he was fined R1 000 for weighing in at 62.4kg after weighing out at the correct 61kg.
Tellytrack presenter Stan Elley, unaware of this, asked Fortune about his weight and was answered with: “Do you want me to give up everything? I gave up drugs and I gave up sex but I love my food.”
Typically he aimed a couple of playful digs at his rivals, saying:
“I look at the TV and see who is riding winners. My God – and they haven’t got half the talent I’ve got. “On Miss Saigon I thought that if I could make them commit behind me, I’d have them. They are not the brightest bunch!”
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