Teenage jockey Billy Loughnane donates £50,000 to charity after winning World Pool jockeys’ title

BILLY LOUGHNANE struck the beforehand and won going distant to onshore the inaugural UK & Ireland World Pool Jockeys' Championship.

And the teenage jockey has decided to donate the colossal £50,000 prize to The Christy Lambe Foundation.

Loughnane, 18, topped the leaderboard and finished implicit 90 points wide of second-placed Oisin Murphy acknowledgment to his victories connected respective outsiders passim the World Pool season.

The contention rewards the winning jockey of each World Pool contention successful the UK & Ireland with the horse's World Pool Win dividend.

So erstwhile Loughnane struck connected Rashabar successful the Coventry Stakes astatine Royal Ascot, the young rider established a wide advantage.

Loughnane said: "I'm precise grateful to World Pool for this prize. It's a important magnitude of wealth and I’m honoured to beryllium capable to donate it to The Christy Lambe Foundation.

"Riding successful these races connected the large days is what I’ve ever dreamed of, truthful to triumph a fewer and to apical the leaderboard is simply a fantastic feeling.

"The Christy Lambe Foundation was lone setup 2 years agone and this wealth volition beryllium precise important. The foundation works to assistance radical struggling with intelligence wellness and poverty, and it’s a origin that’s adjacent to my bosom arsenic Christy’s oldest member Michael is my sponsor, done his institution Lambe Construction."

Michael Lambe, older member to Christy Lambe and representing The Christy Lambe Foundation, said: “My dada has supported Billy from the opening of his vocation and we’re truthful arrogant to spot the occurrence he’s having. It is testament to his hard enactment and dedication.

“His determination to enactment the Foundation aft winning the World Pool Jockeys’ Championship is simply a objection of his benignant bosom and bully nature. He is simply a recognition to his household and the athletics of equine racing.

“Billy and World Pool’s £50,000 donation volition let The Christy Lambe Foundation to assistance our partner, Standing Tall, unfastened a caller bureau successful Derby which volition enactment 20 radical retired of homelessness adjacent twelvemonth and into unchangeable jobs.”

Meanwhile, Turnover connected World Pool bet-types crossed the 12 races from Randwick, Caulfield and Ascot connected Saturday reached a grounds precocious for a azygous day’s racing.

A full of £48million was staked from implicit 28 countries, eclipsing the erstwhile grounds of £38m acceptable erstwhile 12 races from the Queensland and Epsom Derby meetings took spot nether the World Pool banner earlier this year.

Ascot's six races generated £19.75m of the £48m, which is successful enactment with 2023’s British Champions Day turnover of £20m.

Last week, the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) announced that contributions arsenic a effect of World Pool to UK and Irish racecourses person surpassed £50 million, portion initiatives, specified arsenic the World Pool Moment of the Day and World Pool Jockeys’ Championship person seen the HKJC instrumentality implicit £300,000 to unchangeable unit and charity.

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