The researchers recognise height and other physiological factors come into what a jockey's ideal calorific intake should be on a daily basis. Martin says: "I know mine is around 2, and that is the minimum number of calories I should consume in a day.
Because jockeys are smaller that could range from as little as 1, or 1, for a 5ft 4in male or female jockey who might weigh 7st 7lb. But for a taller jump jockey it could be as much as 1, or 1, Richard Kingscote has gained a reputation as a leader in the weighing room when it comes to taking nutrition and diet seriously and in reached the century mark for the third consecutive year since deciding to change his eating habits.
There are lots of apps and my wife does the same. If I want to go out and eat some rubbish, I can. But I need to keep that in check. But a lot of jockeys have adapted now and it's a much healthier environment. Kingscote's solution is to cook batches of healthy dinners for himself so his body can properly refuel at the end of the day, whatever the time he finishes riding and wherever he finds himself. He says: "I would always have breakfast, say a slice of bread with two fried eggs — not fried in a load of fat — to try to keep my protein up.
Then a protein bar on the way to the races, some grapes, a chicken wrap for lunch and a few wine gums. Tonight I have a protein yoghurt and then salmon, peas and couscous for tea. A few months ago I tweeted a picture after I'd prepped my meals for a week.
I did it last night so I have the next three days sorted. Steve Smith Eccles was another jockey who had size on his side when it came to keeping his weight down through most of his career, although the man who partnered See You Then to a hat-trick of Champion Hurdle successes in the mid s rode in an era when nutrition was an alien concept. I'd drive off to the races and then when I got home I would have an evening meal. I did that for year after year and have stuck to it today.
In the days before summer jump racing kept so many jockeys on the go year round, Smith Eccles suffered far less of a boom-and-bust relationship with his weight than some colleagues. At the beginning of the season it would be red-hot outside and Ian would have a sweat suit on, all the windows wound up and the heating on full blast. Although the energy cost of real-world training and racing is unknown, energy expenditure during simulated race riding and total daily energy expenditure was 0.
Such estimates of energy expenditure are considerably lower than that of other sports and suggest that conventional sports nutrition guidelines may not be applicable to the elite jockey.
Furthermore, the use of daily diets that emphasise a high-protein and reduced carbohydrate intake in the form of six small daily meals in combination with structured exercise has also proven effective in reducing body mass and maintaining target racing weight.
In this regard, available data suggest the need for those organisations responsible for jockey welfare to implement widespread educational programmes to assist in improving both the physical and mental well-being of professional jockeys. They would sleep in saunas and Turkish baths, and would even ride out on their horses still in their sweat suits.
The jockeys say they were so in touch with their bodies and weight that they could feel if they were a few pounds overweight just by how their clothes felt. Dunwoody says that for him it was hard work to get his weight down at the beginning of the racing season after the off-season, as he would have put on some weight. However, he knew from an early age that this is what he wanted to do, and throughout his childhood he feared he would get too big to become a jockey.
It would have been bad for business if the owners and trainers had known the extents he went to to not put on weight, including fluid pills.
He struggled throughout his career to maintain his weight, as he said that his body did not want to be a jockey weight, and he would gain muscle very easily. Both Grivell and Lovato Jr. For Grivell, the constant struggle was affecting his mind and his body, while Lovato Jr. Multiply that over his long career, and he estimates that he sweated off over 30, lbs just to do his job. He admits that he wanted to quit many times over his career as it is a very physically and mentally demanding career.
Winning was the reward for the constant weight struggle, but towards the end of his career, when he was coming up against younger and lighter jockeys and winning less, it was a fight to keep going. These tricks were dangerous to the health of the jockeys, but they spread throughout the sport as they would try anything to get an advantage over the rest of the course and win.
The ex-professional jockeys say the diet and fitness regimes are much healthier for jockeys nowadays than when they were racing. No-one in the sport was teaching the science of nutrition or even knew what it really was.
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