Bowen has stormed clear at the top of the jump jockeys\u2019 championship, with 98 winners before racing on Wednesday \u2013 55 ahead of James in second.<\/p>\n
\u201cJames is having a great season and is currently second behind me in the championship,\u201d said Bowen, who was crowned champion for the first time in April after an untimely injury derailed his charge for the title the previous season.<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, we can keep it like that all season.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old from Pembrokeshire reached 1,000 winners in February and says he has been blown away by how older brother Mickey has taken over the reins from father Peter at the family\u2019s training operation.<\/p>\n
Bowen senior passed his licence down to Mickey in May after enjoying 1,105 winners over jumps and winning well over \u00a310million in total prize-money.<\/p>\n
Mickey has had 40 winners and leads the trainers\u2019 championship in its early stages with prize-money of \u00a3388,678.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t quite believe how well Mickey has started,\u201d said Sean. \u201cHe\u2019s been incredible.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he has trained almost as many winners already this season as they had last season.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings just keep going from strength to strength and he\u2019s doing a brilliant job.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has obviously learnt a lot from dad over the years and I know dad is still helping him plenty.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has also been to Willie Mullins\u2019 operation to learn there and that hasn\u2019t gone amiss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bowen is relishing the opportunity to be on home ground in Wales this weekend with Chepstow hosting a new three-day jump racing festival.<\/p>\n
The Dragonbet Welsh Racing Festival will run Friday to Sunday with 10,000 racegoers expected at the Monmouthshire course.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to promote Welsh racing all we can, because we\u2019ve got some brilliant trainers and brilliant jockeys and obviously some big owners now as well,\u201d said Sean.<\/p>\n
\u201cWelsh racing is thriving at the minute and this big festival meeting at Chepstow is where all the stars will start their season, so it is quite exciting.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Chepstow have done a good job promoting it all and a few owners are telling me about the good deals they\u2019ve done with hotels and buses and different things.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though Chepstow is in Wales, it is quite close to a lot of the jumps trainers over the border.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s not far for them to go and a three-day festival is brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowen has stormed clear at the top of the jump jockeys\u2019 championship, with 98 winners before racing on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-482852","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115338384770861221","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482852","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=482852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}