Richard Kingscote: ‘This year's been a shock - I'd accepted I was a journeyman'
Lewis Porteous talks to the jockey about his season of new-found acclaim
He is a veteran of 18 years in the saddle and more than 1,400 winners yet, sitting comfortably in his home office in Oxfordshire, Richard Kingscote comes to the conclusion that 2022 has been a breakthrough year in his career.
The 36-year-old had topped 100 annual winners on five previous occasions, but there has never been anything to match the past ten months, a period in which his stock among his peers has climbed to a place he had given up on reaching.
The builder's son from Weston-super-Mare with a passion for Call of Duty and daredevil motorbikes might not be your archetypal jockey but, having worked his way along racing's grid over the past two decades, he now has a clear view of the front row. It is fair to say it is a position he likes.
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