A necessity: Baby oil because, as a jockey, I have always had trouble with my weight and had to sauna a lot. Baby oil blocks up the pores so you sweat and it makes your skin soft and smooth after all the saunas.

A luxury: Cartier Light cigarettes. It is very difficult to buy them in this country, so I always get them at duty free shops. Lots of jockeys smoke because it suppresses the appetite and helps with the weight.

A memento: Someone gave me a St Christopher medal, which I stitched to the front of my skullcap. It keeps me safe on the planes, on the horses and from all those lunatic drivers you see on the way from the airport to track.

If only: I'd love to have a Lear jet or helicopter to take me straight from home to the race. I'd have a pilot, too. Travelling bores me to tears, so I tend to sleep on journeys. I can't eat or drink because of the weight thing. The weights are lighter on the Continent and the US, so it is worse.

• The Wayward Lad, the Autobiography of Graham Bradley, is published by Greenwater at £17.99.