Oisin Murphy
Age: 29
Background:
Oisin Murphy won the British jockeys’ championship for the first time in 2019 with 220 wins and bagged an international major aboard Suave Richard in the G1 Japan Cup. He also captured the British Champion Jockey title in 2020, 2021 and 2024. He has 32 career G1 wins among more than 1730 total. The Killarney native is a graduate of the Irish pony racing circuit. Schooled in riding by his uncle, the Cheltenham Gold Cup-winning jockey Jim Culloty, Murphy worked summer holidays for trainers Tommy Stack and Aidan O'Brien. He was apprenticed to Andrew Balding in England in October 2012 and had his first race ride in May 2013 when already 18. He ended his first season (2013) with 41 wins, including a four-timer on Ayr Gold Cup day that featured the historic sprint handicap itself. Murphy impressed in winter stints in Australia and the UAE before riding his first short contract in Hong Kong in the winter of 2016/17, which brought four wins. His G1 breakthrough came in October 2017 on Acclaim in the Prix de la Foret and two weeks later he took the G1 E P Taylor Stakes on Blond Me. In 2024, Murphy won Group 1 races aboard New Century (Summer Stakes), Khaadem (Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes) and Asfoora (King Charles III Stakes)
Honours:
British Champion Jockey (2019, 2020, 2021 & 2024); British Champion Apprentice (2014).
Hong Kong wins (as of 24 November):
5

24/25 Season         Up to Race Meeting of 26/12/2024
Nationality : IRE No. of Wins : 1 Total Rides : 2
Stakes won : $15,840,000 No. of 2nds : 0 Win % : 50.00%
No. of Wins in past 10 race days : 1 No. of 3rds : 0
No. of 4ths : 1

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