Welcome back to Racing Live on Talk Sport 2, Emm. andm. Kennedy and Lizzy Kelly with you till just after 3 p.m.

Live racing from Southwell today.

A man I think we would have been covering,

had the jumps action survived,

is top jumps jockey.

James Bowen who is back on racing live James

welcome back to the show great to have your company again thank you very much it's

good to be back thank you and since we last spoke to you, poor old Nico got injured, and when a jockey gets injured,

someone is going to take advantage of that. And boy, have you taken full advantage of that one?

You'd almost think this was a Tanya Harding situation and we'd

taken him out for you but we wish we very much wish him well and hope that

Nico will be back in action sooner rather than later but you've already had a

tremendous amount of success but stepping into Nico's shoes.

It's something you've done many times you did it on Boxing Day for example you won the big

grade one the new version of the tallworth while Nico was at

Campton but in his absence you've been writing all of Nicky's big guns and

that is not something that is daunting you in any way.

No I've been I've been very lucky now. Obviously it's unlucky for Nico, but you know I'll

I've given it my best shot anyway and yeah it's been it's been going well, so I'm really enjoying it.

You're only 22, which is kind of staggeringly young, considering the level of success that you have had.

It's the kind of success that you'd expect someone who's got an older head on their shoulders to have

and certainly to be able it seems at least on the surface to handle the level of

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