"I LOVE it more than ever,” says Will Biddick of his career in the saddle as a point-to-point jockey, and whose most recent season culminated in an eighth men’s championship title. He is Britain’s winning-most point-to-point jockey, notching 560 victories between the Flags from 1,917 starts and a further 36 hunter chase winners to date. And his appetite for more is insatiable.
Previous to this year’s championship victory, Will last won the title in the 2018/19 season.
“Once you win it, you don’t want to lose it and it was mine to lose,” says Will, 36. “Every year I want to win it, and prior to this season I was putting a lot of pressure on myself and on my home life chasing the title – it was almost obsessive and everything was getting away from me. It was tough.”
Will credits a change in tactics to regaining the championship.
“I decided I would only ride in Devon, Cornwall and Wessex; I put my family first, concentrated on my business and my mindset changed,” he explains. “I rode in a more relaxed way – I wasn’t trying to force it. If horses made mistakes, I gave them time to
