43 h. ago Oisin Murphy donates £25,000 prize to welfare charity Nicki Strong worked for

Racing Welfare, which was rocked by the death of its head of communications and marketing this month, will receive half of the amount won by the five-time champion jockey

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2 d. ago Ireland’s leading Flat rider ditched from Melbourne Cup favourite for local

Dylan Browne McMonagle is on course to be crowned champion jockey in Ireland for the first time but his services won't be needed for Al Riffa, who will now be ridden by Mark Zahra

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5 d. ago Champion jockey Oisin Murphy had ‘point to prove’ after ‘paying the price' following relapse

Oisin Murphy said he had a 'point to prove' after his drink-driving conviction that motivated him to win a fifth jockey’s championship this season

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6 d. ago Oisin Murphy: ‘I found escapism but also an awful lot of trouble in the bottle’

Champion jockey on pursuit of sobriety, his April car crash, a voracious need to win – and the poetry of Sylvia Plath‘I didn’t feel good,” Oisin Murphy says with a grimace as he gestures towards the birthday cards still standing in his house more than a month since he turned 30. Murphy has already spoken for an hour, in raw and moving detail, about the guilt he will feel when he has to walk down a guard of honour to mark his fifth champion jockeys’ title at Ascot on Saturday, his daily struggle with alcoholism, his near catastrophic return to drinking this summer, the dangers of racing and the Sylvia Plath poem he loves most.But the milestone of his 30th birthday troubles him. “It was incredibly significant because I never thought I’d get to 30,” Murphy says, as he uses a smouldering cigarillo to light another in an unbroken chain stretching across this corner of Lambourn. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Jim Crowley told he’ll be ‘in a wheelchair for three months’ following York fall

The former champion jockey is planning to return to action in 2026 after fracturing his pelvis and leg and suffering internal bleeding after he was one of two riders who came down in the same race last month

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1 week ago Jockey Oisin Murphy reveals all about 'scariest five minutes' of record career

Murphy was interviewed about his new book 'Sacrifice: A year in the life of a champion jockey', which released on Thursday, and is an honest account of his daily life in the sport

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2 w. ago Stunning jockey who had face bashed in by thugs beats trauma as glam bodybuilder

WARNING GRAPHIC PICTURE: A champion jockey was attacked by a group of men trying to steal her car two years ago - but she has since transformed her life and is now a competitive bodybuilder

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2 w. ago Champion jockey brutally attacked with rock beating trauma as competitive bodybuilder

Sonja Logan, who slumped into depression and turned to drink after she was the victim of a violent car-jacking outside her home two years ago, has found a new lease of life in the gym

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3 w. ago ‘Absolute machine’ Sean Bowen keeps up incredible ‘winner a day’ momentum

The 28-year-old Welshman has ridden 93 winners in the first 93 days of the 2025-26 season, twice as many as his nearest rival, younger brother James

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3 w. ago Arc runner trained 6,000 miles away ridden by Oisin Murphy is bookie’s ‘worst result’

The Japanese raider Byzantine Dream, who will be the mount of the four-time champion jockey, is the biggest loser in William Hill’s ante-post market on the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

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