Jack Kennedy: "It’s been a nerve-racking few weeks, but it’s great to get it over the line"

This season we been able to enjoy Kennedy having a relatively free run from an injury perspective and it resulted in him taking an early lead in the jockeys’ title race and, on this occasion, being able to sustain it all the way to the winning line

Jack Kennedy Champion Jockey 2023/24

At the end of a season in which he had to settle for second behind Paul Townend in many of the top races, Jack Kennedy came out in front in the one race he has long been driven to win: the jockeys’ championship.

In the Champion Hurdle and the Gold Cup at Cheltenham, and again in the Grand National at Aintree, Kennedy played second fiddle to Townend, but at close of play on Saturday evening in Punchestown, when the curtain came down on another National Hunt season, the Dingle, Co Kerry, native claimed the title with a tally of 123 winners.