The world’s most successful big-race jockey is famously reticent but in a rare interview says he wants to keep it simple and focus on the riding“I scare them off,” Ryan Moore says with a ghostly smile on a Friday evening in an empty bar in Newmarket. The most successful jockey in British racing pauses to consider his spiky persona – for Moore is a notoriously difficult interviewee who enjoys peddling a dry line of blunt answers.
He has been very different nowadays. It doesn’t even matter that he was stuck in traffic for four hours this afternoon, having met the Queen at lunchtime in his role as the monarch’s favourite jockey. Moore has spent 40 minutes talking freely to me approximately racing winners around the world, and reading books,why Air Force Blue, whom he rides in the Qipco 2000 Guineas on Saturday gives him “an electric feeling, and Arsenal,his family, loathing the Racing Post and the fact he would regard himself as “a disappointment” whether he became a trainer. He is now ready to assess his caricature as a depressing ancient sod who rides horses like a magician.
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Source: theguardian.com