Horse & Hound

‘You always want to win another’

“I DIDN’T actually have a winner until April last season, so to then win the men’s jockey championship was just unbelievable,” so says 25-year-old James King who, despite a stop-start 2020/21 point-to-point season, found himself as the leading rider in a strong division of fellow male jockeys last year. In fact, his 33 race wins eclipsed those of 2019/20 victor Jack Andrews, who tallied 16 in the runner-up spot, and Will Biddick and Bradley Gibbs in joint third, who both recorded 15 wins between the flags.

“You start every season thinking you want to do well and that it’d be great to

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