‘Jockey’ Star Clifton Collins Jr Learned to Bet on Horse Races at 9 Years Old (Video)

For his role in the drama “Jockey,” actor Clifton Collins Jr. did everything he could to live the part, trying to blend in with other jockeys and learning the tricks of the trade. But his experience on the racetrack goes way back to when he was a kid.

Collins Jr. spoke with TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven at the Toronto International Film Festival and recalled being brought to the racetrack by his father as a boy and at a young age learning how to bet on horses. Though, he explained, that those memories weren’t always great ones.

“My parents separated when I was young, so the few times that we had visitation with him, picking up myself and my sister as children would be at the racetrack across the street from the trailer park he lived in,” Collins Jr.