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York Ebor festival

Can you guess who these top jockeys are from their childhood photos?

The Under Jockeys' Orders initiative returns for this year’s York Ebor festival, now running across all four days of the meeting.

The campaign features a range of jockey-focused activities, including autograph signings and riders wearing their names on their breeches to make them easier to recognise.

The Professional Jockeys Association has also helped gather a collection of childhood photos of leading jockeys to celebrate the event, can you guess who’s who?

1.

Clue: He won four Group 1s in 2022 and 2023 all with the same horse.

2. 

Who is this jockey on the right, pictured in his home country?

Clue: Well travelled and has more than 4,000 winners.

3. 

Clue: She might be pictured jumping, but she is very much a Flat jockey, winning the Shergar Cup as part of the Ladies' team. However, she has won three times over jumps.

4.

Clue: Stable jockey for a powerful North Yorkshire-based trainer.

5.

Clue: Three-time Group 1 winner, including successive Nunthorpes.

6.

Clue: An all-time great jockey who has won more than 100 Group 1s and counting.

7.

Clue: Multiple Group 1 winner, including two Juddmonte Internationals and two Nunthorpes.

8.

Clue: One of, if not the, greatest jockeys of all time.

9.

Clue: Multiple champion jockey.


Answers revealed below


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Answers:

  1. Jason Hart 
  2. Silvestre de Sousa (on right in Brazil)
  3. Jo Mason
  4. Clifford Lee
  5. Paul Mulrennan
  6. William Buick
  7. Jim Crowley
  8. Ryan Moore
  9. Oisin Murphy

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