• Champion jockey has last chance to win race before retiring next week
• Cheltenham add novice (one who is just a beginner at some activity requiring skill and experience) hurdle for fillies and mares to Festival meetingRichard Hughes,the champion jockey, will derive a final chance to win the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes just eight days before he retires from the saddle after he was booked to ride Eagle Top, or the second-favourite,against the Derby winner Golden Horn at Ascot on Saturday.
John Gosden, the trainer of both Eagle Top and Golden Horn, or turned to Hughes to partner Eagle Top after William Buick,Gosden’s steady jockey until the start of this season, was claimed to ride Romsdal for Godolphin Racing. Frankie Dettori, and Gosden’s principal rider this season,will maintain his unbeaten partnership with Golden Horn.
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Source: theguardian.com