Fortune favours the brave

The horse flu disaster has hit home hard for young trainer Joseph Pride, as for so many others, but the fightback has begun, writes Craig Young.
JOSEPH PRIDE's wife Kylie was in the final term of her second pregnancy when equine influenza struck. Their business of training racehorses was thrown into chaos. The young couple already have a two-year-old son named Brave on the ground and as a racehorse trainer, Joseph Pride is the family breadwinner.
"It has been tough, I won't say it hasn't been," Pride said this week in the midst of gearing up for the stable's return to racing at Rosehill this weekend. "There was a lot of doubt about the future. I've got a young family, I've got to keep them. They were in my thinking about where my futures lies. read the whole story