Ruby Walsh: Professional sport is not about taking part, it is about winning
Deams Of Home gave jockey Brian Hughes his 200th winner of the season when scoring at Perth on Thursday, a feat previously achieved by only AP McCoy, Peter Scudamore, and Richard Johnson. Picture: Healy Racing
The most straightforward article or column in the world for me to write is one about my former profession and those who partake in it. As the season draws to a close in the UK today, leaving only next week’s Punchestown extravaganza to conclude the Irish one, I should be writing about the latest man from the north of Ireland to reign supreme in the UK.
Instead of just writing about Brian Hughes, my words and thoughts are also with his English counterpart Josh Moore, who is now travelling a polar-opposite route to Hughes, having started out on the same journey 12 months ago.
