Teenage star jockey Billy Loughnane: ‘It’s been my dream job since I was a baby’

The 19-year-old champion jockey contender on staying grounded amid a rapid rise and why he’s happy to ride seven days a week“I want to be champion jockey,” Billy Loughnane says, with the grin that is already something of a trademark. “That’s my goal, my only ambition. I want to be champion jockey, I need to be champion jockey and hopefully I’ll be able to do it.”From any other teenage rider bar the 19-year-old Loughnane, such a resolute statement of intent could prompt at least a niggle of concern that, with such a tight focus on the ultimate destination, he might not appreciate the journey. Loughnane, though, has been a little different from the earliest days of his riding career. Continue reading...

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