As an amateur jockey, JD rode just over 250 winners in the point-to-point field and on the track. After retiring from the saddle, he put together a CV that now reads like a Who’s Who of racing. 

He gained wide and varied experience in all aspects of breeding, bloodstock and horseracing, working in Ireland (with Arthur Moore, John Oxx and Michael Hourigan), in France (with Guillame Macaire, Francois Marie Cottin and Etienne Lenders), in the USA (with Janet Elliot and Michael Dickinson) and in the UK (with Robert Alner and Oliver Sherwood).

JD has built up a great network of contacts from his time spent working in France and as a Bloodstock Agent he has privately purchased many blue blood foals, yearlings and broodmares. With a great eye for value, he has been fortunate to select and purchase pinhooks for clients that have been extremely profitable and successful in topping the Derby Sale in Tattersalls and Land Rover Sales, Goffs before going on to compete in Group 1 company over jumps.