Ryan Moore: examining the two faces of the world's number-one jockey
Everyone knows Moore is brilliant, just don't ask him how he feels about it
If there was ever a sentence that seemed to encapsulate Ryan Moore, it was his infamous response to a reporter who pounced on him for a reaction moments after the rider had piloted Snow Fairy to victory in the 2010 Oaks.
"It's not the Derby, is it?"
Here was Moore in all his complex, contradictory glory. The ace race rider triumphant on the biggest stage; the hyper-competitive sportsman always striving for something bigger; the taciturn media refusenik with a limitless scorn for flippant questions; the shy man with an impish sense of humour.
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