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Ruby after winner the Gold Cup announces his retirement with immediate effect on RTV – shocking because he is still riding at the top level but happy he is going on his own terms.
Greatest jumps jockey of all times retires with a G1 win and not an injury!!!
Well done, Ruby and have fun with the family!Recent years have seen Ruby with injury after injury. Glad he’s decided to go out on his own terms whilst fully fit and still at the top. A golden generation of jockeys is slowly disappearing.
Happy retirement, Ruby!
Value Is EverythingFine horseman and incredibly tactically astute…good luck to him.
I’m sure a career training on the flat awaits.
He ranks as one of the all time greats if not the best, his record is unequalled at Cheltenham and he rode all over the world, rode most of the best horses over jumps.
All the best Ruby. You deserve it.
All comers, all ground, all beaten
Probably the best horseman since Francome.
That in itself is compliment enough in my book.
Enjoy retirement Rupert
Happy retirement Ruby what a great way to bow out.
Cheltenham will certainly miss him next year although I’ve no doubt we will be seeing him put his expertise to good use with the ITV Team.
Will always remember his partnership with Vautour, Douvan and Faugheen at the top of their game, poetry in motion.
Best of luck for the future Ruby.
Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out...One of the true greats. I’d love to see him involved in the media- he’s more of a natural than some I could mention- but I doubt that he’s interested in following that particular path.
Whatever Ruby decides, here’s to a long and happy retirement.
Interesting that he was denying any rumours of retirement as recently as 27th April! I got the feeling he might be starting to think about it when he was interviewed at Cheltenham. I reckon he’d have announced it then if he’d picked the right Mullins horse in the Gold Cup! Good luck to him. Great jockey. Not so keen on a media role for him myself mind you. Hope Gladiateur is right about him having better fish to fry!
I assume that, in a situation like that you don’t even think to yourself that you are going to retire if a certain horse wins for you because the thought of going out to race ride for the last time would be unbearable; it’s somewhere at the back of your mind that you will do so but when the moment is right you suddenly spring it on everyone including yourself. And, what a race to end it on [although the temptation to carry on for another year and ride Kemboy at Cheltenham must have been very great..]
Gladiateur, I think media work is where he’s saying his future lies so we’re likely to see plenty of him in that sphere I reckon.
Brilliant jockey and racing will be the worse for his absence from the track.
(Cormack)
Even my non racing fan husband who has only sat on a horse twice in his life could see how good he was. He’d say- look Ruby is going to win, all the others are flapping about and he hasn’t moved a muscle.
Happy retirement to him, glad he’s in one piece. I hope Gillian had pizza with extra cheese ordered in last night. If I’d starved myself for 20 years I’d be unstoppable. I think I’d have laminitis within 2 days.
I remember backing Tin Soldier 23rd Feb 2017 looking all over the loser 4 and 3 out but somehow Ruby conjured up a run and he got up by a length……… magic.
The greatest modern day Grand National jockey. Won on Papillon for his father Ted, and then Hedgehunter for Willie. Hoping sister Katie can follow before her retirement.
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.
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