MUMBAI: When young Mustakim Alam received the champion apprentice jockey trophy of the Pune Season last month, he could not hold his emotions, and understandably so. Just five years ago he couldn’t have imagined that riding horses would be his career. His is a classic rags-to-riches story still in the making.
Born and reared in a remote village Katta Mattha in the Kisanganj district of rural Bihar, Mustakim had dropped out of school owing to lack of funds and was looking for a job to support his parents and siblings.
