ME and my MONEY
WHEN champion jockey Jim Crowley jumps on the back of a racehorse, he can earn up to £35,000 in just 90 seconds. But for 39year-old Crowley, who won the Flat Jockeys Championship last year, getting paid £389 per second is just ‘part of the job’.
What motivates him is his love of horse racing and the prestige of winning, not the millions of pounds in prize money that is up for grabs. He avoids investing in the stock market, preferring instead to improve his family home.
His three lucky children, he says, are currently collecting ponies and he has built them paddocks and a swimming pool in the land surrounding his fivebedroom country home.
He and wife Lucinda, 37, live in West Sussex with son Sam, four, and daughters Bella, seven, and ten-yearold Alice.