Irish jump jockey Ruby Walsh has an unfamiliar role on Sunday when he takes a ride on the Flat at Naas on the opening day of the Irish Flat season. As the Irish National Hunt favourite retires from a remarkable 20-year career, we remember the elegant and compelling performances that set him above his peersThat rare combination of risk and patience is what made Walsh, who Over the course of his career, he won two Cheltenham Gold Cups, three Champion Chases, four Champion Hurdles, two Grand Nationals, five King George VI Chases, rode more than 2,500 winners, was the Irish jump jockey champion 12 times and made the There are sports stars you admire and sports stars you respect, but only a rare few can own your soul. After the death of a horse at the Festival once, still raw at the injuries suffered there by JT McNamara which eventually led to the jockey’s premature death, he said “We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Showing talent from an early age, Walsh won the Irish amateur title twice, in 1996/97 (aged 18) and 1997/98, before turning professional. You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. As he noted at Punchestown: “I’m retiring, not dead.” Maybe so. I first became aware of Rupert “Ruby” Walsh when he won the Grand National on his first attempt in 2000, riding Papillon, trained by his father Ted.

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Ruby was born in 1970s, in the middle of Generation X. Ruby Walsh knows a thing or two about the Galway Festival – he tells us what it takes to come out on top.

He married Gillian Walsh in 2006. Most of all there was Ruby, the one who made it look easy, who rode with elegance and élan, his seat barely shifting as he stole an extra yard with every second he advanced up Prestbury Park’s famous hill.Like Lionel Messi he could see angles and gaps that his competitors had barely registeredAt Cheltenham, where they adored him, Tuesday was regularly named Ruby Tuesday (he loved nothing more than kicking the whole shebang off with a victory in the opening race, the Supreme Novice’s Hurdle) and fans would bellow out the Kaiser Chiefs’ chorus “Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, Ruby” as he urged another horse home.There’s something magical about watching someone bend their sport to their will. He ended up in the same place at Cheltenham last year when he fell from Al Boum Photo, this year’s Gold Cup winner, breaking his leg at the second last in the RSA Chase.But after finishing second on his first ride there in the National Hunt Chase as an amateur in 1998 it was the winners’ enclosure where he most often ended up and his victories included two Gold Cups on Kauto Star, three Champion Chases on Azertyuiop and Master Minded twice, and four Champion Hurdles on Hurricane Fly twice, Annie Power and Faugheen.

He won his first Irish amateur title in 1996/7 at just 18 years of age. All rights reserved. It was a race that summed up everything that made him so wonderful to watch, as was his last Cheltenham victory, a canny, beautifully delivered ride on Klassical Dream.Naturally restrained, Walsh would have little time for such eulogies. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. It’s there when the snooker balls align for Ronnie O’Sullivan or when Rory McIlroy makes the hardest of shots look something even a beginner could hole.

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