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Double century for Brian Hughes is just reward for his McCoy-esque domination

Brian Hughes could have stopped riding at New Year and still been champion jockey this season.
Brian Hughes could have stopped riding at New Year and still been champion jockey this season.Credit: John Grossick (racingpost.com/photos)

Senior reporter Chris Cook on a landmark 200th winner of the season for the man who has dominated this year's jump jockeys' championship from start to finish . . .

"There's very little McCoy-esque about me," was the typically modest response from Brian Hughes a couple of months ago, when his dominance of this jumps season sparked comparisons with the now-retired champion of yore.

Like his fellow Northern Irishman, Hughes's appetite for work seems endless and is not sated by success or undermined by fatigue.

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Chris CookRacing Writer of the Year

Published on 20 April 2022inNews

Last updated 17:34, 20 April 2022

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