This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Jack Kennedy. Jack who is from Dingle in county Kerry is an Irish National Hunt jockey. He rode 123 winners in Ireland to be crowned champion jockey for the first time at the end of the 2023/2024 season. He became the youngest jockey in modern times at 21 years of age to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 2021 renewal on the Henry de Bromhead-trained Minella Indo. He was only 17 when he rode his first winner at the Festival. He burst onto the scene in the summer of 2015 and was undoubtedly the find of the year.
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