Where are they now? Johnny Cairns

By Terry Butts
Updated September 22 2015 - 12:50pm, first published April 15 2015 - 3:00am
Johnny Cairns at the peak of his career.
Johnny Cairns at the peak of his career.

IT is 13 years since Johnny Cairns sat on a racehorse. Every day his heart aches to climb back on but his head won’t allow him. Nor will the doctors after the record-breaking jockey from Mackay had a fall – not from a horse mind you – and landed head first on concrete.

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