can u be a jockey at a young age even if you started learning how to race at teen age?
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If you have the talent and the desire you can become a jockey.\nMost jockeys start out by working for a stable as a stable hand and doing various jobs like walking hores in the morning and after races and cleaning stalls in the morning.\n\nIf you are with a good trainer he will put you on some horses in the morning to work them out on the track when he feels you are ready.\n\nThis will be a chance to see if you have the ability and are good with horses.\n\nAnother way that some jockeys learned to ride was to work at a large breeding farm which many of the bigger stables have.\n\nThey are always training young horses and looking at them to see which ones they want to keep if they have bred them for their own stable as opposed to inviduals who send their mares to the farm to be bred.\n\nThe ones they don't want usually go to the auctions where they are sold to the highest bidder.\n\nSeveral young jockeys learn to ride at these farms and it is a more relaxed atmosphere to learn in than the racetrack itself.\n\nAll of these farms have their own training tracks.\n\nSometimes there will be horses on the farm that are recouperating and when they go back into training they need someone to ride them.\n\nI know Sandy Hawley got his start in racing by working at a farm like that.\nIt was probably EP Taylors farm but I'm not 100% sure about that.\n\nAs the first answerer pointed out racing can be a rough business and it does help if you know someone but if you do not, try and find out who some of the better and MORE  HONEST trainers and people are because there are a lot of crooks.\n\nIf you do make it and become a jockey try and stay honest because many do turn crooked or are not above pulling a horse if the price(bribe) is right.\n\nSometimes jockeys at smaller tracks for sure have to follow crooked orders if they do not want to suffer physical harm.I have seen some of the results of those who didn't.\n\nThe Mafia is in thoroughbred and probably harness racing as well(thats even more crooked).\nThey are are also in pro sports but that is another story.\n\nI could tell you more true stories about crooked things and even the worst thing that can happen to a jockey but I don't want to discourage your dream.\n\nIt is an exciting life style and it can be a good life but you have to be careful.\n\nI'm not an authority but I used to spend a lot of time in the summers with a trainer at various tracks when I was younger.They were not major racetracks but it was exciting and I really enjoyed those times.\n\nI also had ideas about becoming a jockey but unfortunately I was more suited to baskeball.\n\nGood luck to you and do your best if that is what you think you would like to do.\nIf you get too big you could still become a trainer or maybe find some other type of work at a track like being a racing offical or even a jockey agent.
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I have no idea on another question u said that u were 11 and omg i am 2 and i take horse backriding lessons at peacful trails in coconut creek in Florida!!!!! Email me if u take lessons in FL!!!
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You will need to win in amateur car racing before anyone will take you seriously. Many drivers start in go karts.
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Asher j you asked this question before, so I'm going to give you almost  the same answer as before.\n\nI think you're about 3 yrs to late, you should have had a Coach / Trainer at 13 years of age and been training at that point, but if you want it bad enough and are willing to work I'd say you had a shot.\n\nRemember if you choose to do this it becomes your ( job / career ) it's not just the glory you see on Television, you will eat and sleep bicycles seven days a week.
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If you went into other motorsports championships before asking this question, you could have chances. After all, look at examples, like Fernando Alonso or Nico Rosberg. Alonso started in Formula 1 in 2001, when he was just around 19 or 20, and Nico this season, and he is also around 20. But if you intend to get to F1 without many races before that, you should do the same as Kimi Raikkonen(he only raced 23 times in other championships before going in F1).
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As long as your body is still growing, it is not too late to start.\nThere is more of a problem of starting too early.  I know that the trend is to start very very early, but many of those young girls who have now made it into adulthood have physical problems and all of them have horror stories.\nIf you are interested in competition, you might be better off waiting until almost high school to start.  Performances are always the best when the athlete “gets into the zone.”  The problem with very young girls is that their body is still growing rapidly and “the zone” keeps moving.
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I'm not sure I follow your question here.\n\nSince you posted in Horse Racing, does that mean you want to be a jockey?  \n\nAre you trying to gain or lose weight?\n\n130 for a man is fairly light, so I wouldn't suggest trying to lose any weight.
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I think your best bet for jockey is a younger less experienced horse one who responds well to the yoke.  Not because your harsh but because your both learning.  A stud not tried on the circut of familiar maybe a bit sheltered.  A stud who is running for the sake of the said jockey and for no other reason.  I really think you'd be a fine jockey on the right stead.  I say you buy the silks but you need to choose the right stead.  You've seen sea biscut right the most unpredictable of rides can prove winners.
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you must be 15 and just starting out.....
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Sure...but depending on where you are, you may have difficulty getting work as a pro boxer...if you are in a soft commision state in the US (read: Georgia), you probably could go in without any training at all and fight...In Conneticut?  Not so much, there are serious rules for fighters there.\n\n    Best advice is to find out what it takes to be licensed in your area to box, then get running, lifting weights, dieting and hitting the bags.\n\nbtw, Mike Tyson was younger than 23 when he started...he was already champ by then.
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I wish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nI do ride dressage though and want to do something like that when i turn 16 or actually the summer before.
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I think it would be great for you to get back involved. Most gyms will pair you with kids your own age. When you compete no matter what level you are on you will compete against other kids your age on the same level. For instance if you are a 13 year old Level 3 you will compete against other 13 year old Level 3's not 6 year old Level 3's or 13 year old Level 6's.
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I'm thirteen too and I love biking, you should start races and make bets that you are going to win.
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No I am in level 4 and I am 13. Go for it.
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I learned many many years ago in Turnabouts.....a very popular trainer is the Optimist.....thousands out there, very active racing/sailing program.......maybe a bit small for two kids and an adult but great for two kids.....\n\nand there's ahuge difference between a 10 year old and a 16....a 16 year old will be bored to death by an Opti.....you'll have to get him/her a Laser or a 420......
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You are still young, and with great times like that, you can only stand to improve even more.  I'm from LA, so times here aren't exactly the fastest.  These are great times for your age.\n\nDon't be surprised though, if you start to slow down in the next few years.  As your body starts to change, you will feel the difference and it will be difficult to adjust.  Between the ages of say, 14 and 16, it is especially difficult for some girls.  You just have to keep your head up and plow through.  If you can outlast this plateau, you'll do great.  (Some girls never have this problem.)\nHope this helps.
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No! Your not to old to start. I don't think you would be to old until your body tells you so. Gymnastics is tough...I say GO FOR IT!! Good Luck!