The champion jockey on another title bid and issues with weight gain in lockdown
Oisin Murphy talks to Matt Butler
It is a year in which plans have been thwarted, aims adjusted and expectations tempered. But despite the life-altering differences between this year and the relative simplicity of the last, for champion jockey Oisin Murphy the goal has not changed. Winning the jockeys’ title again remains the priority.
Returning from racing’s enforced lockdown hiatus on Monday sporting a mask and keeping his distance from the limited numbers in attendance, Murphy, the 11-10 favourite for this year's title, took little time in beginning this year’s challenge, having just a single loosener at Newcastle before recording his first win of the Flat season on Alignak.
If that was a physically demonstrated warning shot to any jockey who has an eye on dethroning Murphy, the 24-year-old also has verbal assurances for his weighing room colleagues that his main aim has not altered.
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