{"id":345019,"date":"2025-12-31T17:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345019\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:31:08","slug":"billy-loughnane-record-irish-teenage-jockey-sets-mark-for-most-wins-in-a-year-this-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/345019\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Loughnane record: Irish teenage jockey sets mark for most wins in a year this Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Loughnane led on the George Boughey-trained Invited heading into the home straight and found enough to hold off a late challenge from Hitched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His 222 winners have come from 1,320 races in 2025 and it was also a 100th winner of the year for Boughey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There was a little bit of pressure today but I&#8217;m delighted to get it done and it means a lot for George,&#8221; Loughnane said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t be where I am without George, he&#8217;s been everything since I started and supported me the whole way up. I&#8217;m delighted to get his 100th winner as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his stellar year, he secured the Annual Flat Jockey Championship title, which is based on the total number of wins across a calendar year from 1 January to 31 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That is a separate award to the British Flat Jockeys&#8217; Championship, which was decided by the total number of wins between 3 May and 18 October and was this year won by Oisin Murphy &#8211; ahead of runner-up Loughnane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The outright record for the number of winners in a British flat racing season remains the 269 achieved by Sir Gordon Richards in 1947.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loughnane led on the George Boughey-trained Invited heading into the home straight and found enough to hold off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-345019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}