48 h. ago The BHA are getting someone to coach Oisin Murphy on how to be a jockey – you honestly couldn’t make it up

THE BHA is going to get someone to coach Oisin Murphy on how to be a jockey. You just couldn’t make it up. I wonder who they will choose? In the Longines World’s Best Jockey rankings, only James McDonald, Mickael Barzalona, William Buick and Ryan Moore are rated above Britain’s five-time champion. Any of you...

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8 d. ago Gstaad gives Aidan O’Brien record Breeders’ Cup win after ‘majestic’ Oisin Murphy ride

GSTAAD landed the odds in spectacular fashion at the Breeders' Cup on a night that belonged to the O'Brien family. The 6-5 favourite was drawn widest of all in stall 14 and was then sluggish out of the gates - but he still outclassed the Juvenile Turf field under a cool Christophe Soumillon at Del...

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1 week ago Breeders’ Cup: ‘Six months sober’ Oisin Murphy names his best chance at Del Mar

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy is named on four horses in Breeders’ Cup races over both days at the annual championships in California this weekend

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2 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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