Barry Geraghty is one of Ireland's most successful jockeys.
A winner of the Grand National and a former National Hunt champion jockey, the 26-year-old says he typically goes "a month or six weeks" without a fall and then "you could have three or four in a week. But you cannot think about it; otherwise you'd never get on a horse."
Geraghty's first significant injury was a fractured collar bone in 1997. The following year saw him suffer a potentially serious fracture of his fifth thoracic vertebra.
Then in 1999, he sustained a similar injury to his seventh thoracic vertebra. Each of these spinal fractures meant he was out of racing for three months. In 2002, he fractured his other collar bone, followed by an elbow fracture in 2003. Last year he sustained a relatively minor break in his thumb.