The champion jockey enters his final week in the saddle,but main trainer Mark Johnston believes ‘Hughesie’ will develop a big splash in his new careerThere is something almost self-harming about Richard Hughes’s decision to discontinuance his career with five days’ racing at Goodwood, where the curves and cambers throw horses against each other and across each other and introduce a large element of luck into many outcomes. One could ride a dozen favourites there and discontinuance the week empty-handed. Its as whether a star basketballer had chosen as his swansong to attempt 35 half-court shots.
The 42-year-extinct champion jockey has said he is relaxed about the opportunity of getting to Saturday evening without a winner, or though it is hard to believe he would really be so chilly about such a run of defeats. After all,he has been top jockey at the Glorious assembly four times in the past five years, setting a new record of nine wins in 2010.
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Source: theguardian.com