One
of the UK’s greatest national hunt Jockeys, Jamie Anthony Osborne
is now hunting glory as a celebrated flat trainer.
Brought
up near Wetherby, Yorkshire in a hunting and farming family, Osborne
had his first race-ride in a point-to-point while studying for his
A-levels. His first win as an amateur came in 1986, after which he
became conditional jockey for Nicky Henderson. His career was given a
huge boost in 1989, when he was picked as Oliver Sherwood’s stable
jockey.
His
career peaked in the 1996/97 season when he rode 131 winners and came
second in the jockey’s Championship. Osborne’s biggest successes
came at the Cheltenham Festival, riding 11 winners between 1991 and
1997. He was the lead rider for the 1992 festival, with five
victories including three in one day. His most memorable wins came in
the 1992 Champion Chase on Remittance Man and in two World Hurdles on
Nomadic Way and Karshi.
He
ended his 15-year riding career in 1999 to become a trainer and after
obtaining his licence opened his yard at Kingsdown in Upper Lambourn,
Berkshire in 2000.
One
of Osborne’s most successful horses as a trainer was Milk it Mate
who in the 2003 season won the Somerville Tattersall Stakes and the
Dewhurst Stakes. In January 2018 he attempted to win the $16million
Pegasus World Cup in Florida with seven-year-old Toast of New York.
A
favourite of the late Queen Mother, Osborne’s career hasn’t been
without scandal and was “acquitted” of race fixing in 1998.
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