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The greatest Irish Flat jockey in history is to retire this week.(Eddery Fans please be in peace)
Post your tributes to a man that has done so much for Irish Racing and Racing generally.
Sad to see you go Mick but no doubt we see you in the Graces in Naas for a few pints one of these days with the ald lad.
Hero!!!!!
Talk about going out on a high! Slightly off tangent is something I read [on this forum, I think] about Mick’s comments about George Washington on that fateful night, saying, ‘he was so brave; he saved me’.Made me think about how different the past racing year could have been. A long and happy retirement to him; a true sportsman…and thanks to Gorgeous George also.
Great jockey. People tend to forget he was no spring chicken when appearing on the international scene and his rise to the top was achieved the hard way I suspect.
What a fantastic season to bow out with, thoroughly deserved and I guess he figured he could never top that.
Happy retirement Mick.
Got the job done in the manner one would expect of someone so richly rewarded: right more often than wrong, without fuss, without hullabaloo, without ego
A thoroughly professional and capable jockey, deserving of the mounts he got
Gushing eulogies are neither needed nor warranted
His mounts were all, as the charmingly self-effacing MJK would be the first to admit I expect
I was hoping the ‘E’ word would never darken these pages again Wallace7
heigh-ho
M J Kinane.
Never before have I seen a jockey give his mounts the very best chance of winning a race as consistently as he ever does/did, no matter what he was riding. If the horse lost, it wasn’t good enough to win 99.99% of the time – a priceless asset.
Mickey Joe will probably go down as the finest flat jockey this country has produced, certainly in my lifetime. His big-race record is second to none and he very rarely got things wrong when thechips were down.
Always conducted himself with great dignity and he was always courteous and polite on the few occasions that I met him. Happy retirement to the old master. Go raibh míle maith agat Mícheal.
Big opportunity now for Fran the man to make a name for himself at Currabeg.
The best thing about going racing for me over the last two decades has been the opportunity to watch Kinane ride …… many times I left the racecourse thinking I will never see a better jockey as there simply couldn’t be one. Thanks for all the thrills and the memories MJK.
Greatest Big Race jockey ive ever seen apart from Piggott of course. Greatest compliment i can give him is i was never worried if he was riding one of my selections.
Nice piece below on the great man.
While its understandable that not many people have the discipline to bow out at the very top of their game,it is absolutely no surprise that Mick Kinane is one of the few that has……..a class act from start to finish and also a fitting and great tribute to Sea The Stars as the horse of a lifetime that not even a jockey with the ‘backlist’ of Mick Kinane could hope to surpass.
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