'I’m delighted. I’m not sad' - Davy Russell calls time on glittering career after Thurles win
SEALED WITH A KIS: Davy Russell with wife Edel after he won on Liberty Dance and announced his retirement. Picture: Healy Racing
While the racing community has spent the better part of the last couple of years guessing how and when the curtain would come down on the stellar career of Davy Russell, it is somewhat fitting that it was Thurles, one of the true bastions of National Hunt racing in Ireland, where the three-time champion jockey hung up his riding boots on Sunday afternoon.
Liberty Dance is the mare with the distinction of being Russell’s final winner, and Gordon Elliott, fittingly, the trainer to give the Youghal man his last winner in the saddle.
