{"id":361404,"date":"2025-08-21T06:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/361404\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T06:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T06:37:13","slug":"kerry-jockey-oisin-murphy-talks-career-ups-and-downs-ahead-of-release-of-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/361404\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry jockey\u00a0Ois\u00edn Murphy talks career ups and downs\u00a0ahead of release of new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Champion UK flat jockey talks life and misdemeanours ahead of the publication of his book this autumn\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oisin Murphy.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/16647f4a-9463-403b-b0a7-67c8978eb9d2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Oisin Murphy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ois\u00edn Murphy found communion with horses at a young age. From being the only work rider in the yard light enough to ride out uncle Jim\u2019s 2014 Cheltenham Festival winner, Spring Heeled, to cementing his place as one of the greatest flat jockeys of his generation \u2013 Ois\u00edn\u2019s ascension has come via an intersection of unimaginable routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He is once again within touching distance of the British Flat Jockeys\u2019 Championship, which culminates on October 18. Nine days earlier he releases \u2018Sacrifice: A Year in the Life of a Champion Jockey\u2019, a book that promises a \u2018searingly honest\u2019 account of life in the saddle leading up to his fourth title in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Champion UK flat jockey talks life and misdemeanours ahead of the publication of his book this autumn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,126936,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-361404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-stephen-fernane","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115065379146940073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}