"I'll tell you what's a worse thing," says Ruby, interjecting. Move on. I’ve always loved going racing,” he says. He also won both the 2006 Tingle Creek Chase and the King George VI Chase on Kauto Star. It's just to keep going and trying to get a notch further ahead.". It was the 213th Grade One win for Walsh. Walsh featured in a TG4 documentary called "Jump Boys". He picks up the teacher's teachings quicker than the others. How to get into horse riding, whether you want to work with horses at the stables or become a fully fledged jockey. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. [17] He returned to the saddle just 27 days later. Kauto Star, Denman, Hurricane Fly, Quevega, Vautour, Hedgehunter, Annie Power, Un de Sceaux and Big Bucks are just some he has ridden into the history books. However, he had earlier success in that race on Take Control in 2002 and following the retirement in 2015 of Tony McCoy, became the only jockey currently riding to have won all four Nationals. That race is over. Ruby also talks openly about the three key working relationships in his life - with Paul Nicholls, Willie Mullins and his father, the legendary Ted Walsh - as well as laying bare the relationship that exists between him and jockey Tony McCoy - both great friends and professional rivals. Jockey Ruby Walsh after winning The Punchestown Gold Cup with Kemboy and announcing his retirement alongside his daughters and father Ted. I like being active, I like being fit. Meet the six women to complete the Grand National: 'Society didn't expect us to be able to line up and compete against men', Tiger Roll: The "You don't need it. "There are loads of things that people do that are high-risk," he says. He can spell 'elephant' while the others can spell 'cat'. I’m gone. 05329570963 - R.E.A. The mental torture of missing the rest of Cheltenham, and maybe having to sit out a couple of more weeks for recovery, is the worst part of it. For other inquiries Contact Us. In 2007, Walsh won the inaugural British Horseracing Board Jockeys' Order of Merit award. Ruby also talks openly about the three key working relationships in his life - with Paul Nicholls, Willie Mullins and his father, the legendary Ted Walsh - as well as laying bare the relationship that exists between him and jockey Tony McCoy - both great friends and professional rivals. Ruby Walsh was not expecting empathy from his great friend and rival, Tony ‘AP’ McCoy - which was just as well. “Good luck and thanks,” he says. Ruby charts the rise of an immensely talented and unstoppable force in the world of sport. He added: "This horse rolled completely over him. During the run-up to the 2010 Grand National he broke his left arm after a fall from Celestial Halo. Showing talent from an early age, Walsh won the Irish amateur title twice, in 1996/97 (aged 18) and 1997/98, before turning professional. The embrace between Ruby and Ted after Kemboy’s Punchestown Gold Cup win affirmed that this was a father-son tale of sporting domination. But I know I have to do that.”. Il prodotto digitale che hai selezionato è già presente nel tuo carrello. "This is an exciting time of year," says Katie. And I feel sorry for them. Walsh suffered an injury in the same race in 2012 after a fall from Zarkander which ruled him out of the 2012 Grand National. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. They were flattering and very nice things.”. They've no drive, no ambition. [8][9][10], On 1 May 2019, Walsh announced his retirement from racing with immediate effect after a career spanning 24 years. Tactics and things like that and I’ll continue to do that. No. He made working in England so easy for me. He reclaimed the King George VI Chase in 2011 on board Kauto Star after Long Run won the race in 2010. Not everybody gets the fairytale exit. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. Jockeys don’t either. You keep rolling on and on and on. If I rode, what, 2,700 winners, say 1,200 horses - I’d say my father didn’t see a hundred of those. On 18 November 2017 Walsh fractured his right leg in a fall at Punchestown and did not return until 3 March 2018. The Sun website is regulated by the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), Ruby Walsh after his fall from Al Boum Photo, Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). He repeated this feat in 2007/08, riding his 200th winner on Andreas at Sandown on his penultimate ride of the season. They just took it out. Ted, in his own inimitable way, puts the anticipation of discovering if there's a potential Cheltenham or Aintree contender in the yard somewhat differently. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site. He also won the Whitbread Gold Cup twice, in 2001 and 2003 (the latter when it was run as the Attheraces Gold Cup), both times on Ad Hoc. The fact that he was back riding within a month of the operation surely demonstrates that jockeys are a different breed from other sportsmen and women. Another National triumph on Hedgehunter in 2005 and then multiple wins in the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the King George VI chase on the legendary Kauto Star. And Jack Kennedy, for a young fellah, is dynamite. “I don’t believe in being idle. "You do your job right, you nail this and you've got a great chance of winning. To me, I’d gotten the perfect exit and I was delighted to get it. But on the day: don’t look back.”, For the silvery, bony, revered king of Irish jump jockeys, the second-half of a sporting life split in two - as all such lives are - has dawned. I started as a 16-year-old chasing a dream. It also brought him in from the cold. Who wouldn't?" [2] He won the English Grand National in 2000 at his first attempt, aged 20, on Papillon,[4] a horse trained by his father and owned by Mrs J Maxwell Moran. But I knew when he got up, and he went down again, there was a bit more to it. RUBY WALSH's dad Ted reckons quitting will not be on his son's mind just yet. But life hasn’t.”, There was no difficulty in returning to the scene of his abdication. You always get a shock. They start with injuries, which defeated even McCoy, 20 times the champion jump jockey. In his debut season of 1998-99, Ruby coasted to the Irish championship with 96 winners. If you do it for the money, it stands out.”. Walsh's father is the trainer and loquacious TV pundit Ted Walsh and at 18, son emulated father in winning the Irish amateur title before turning professional. He was the leading jockey at the Festival 11 times: 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. As the National Hunt season gets under way, BBC Sport travelled to County Kildare, Ireland, to talk to the two-time Grand National winner, his sister Katie - herself a jockey - and his father, Ted, a trainer and television pundit. It would have been worse if it was kidney or my bladder. “No, I love going racing. Do lads suddenly stand up a little bit quicker? That's doesn't fade. I went from being champion jockey in the 1998-99 season to falling off the face of the earth. And yet, in common with other athletes at the very top of their discipline, there is an insatiable appetite and drive to keep on winning. It would be easy to view this as a gung-ho, macho attitude. This is not a museum to past glories though. As for Katie, there's a sense of unfinished business when it comes to the Grand National. He explains: “I’d broken my leg in the Czech Republic, missed six months, was about to get back and broke it again, schooling. Like many jump jockeys, Walsh has suffered a number of serious injuries, the worst of which was a broken leg sustained in 1999 at Pardubice in the Czech Republic, a course he was visiting to compete in the famous Great Pardubice Steeplechase. It's a work ethic that extends to a shared attitude to pain and dealing with injuries, a common occupational hazard when steering a horse over the jumps at speeds of up to 40mph.

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