FORMER CHAMP RACING AHEAD IN HIS NEW CAREER

Nick Townsend speaks to Paul Hanagan as he swaps riding winners from helping to own them instead

After former champion Paul Hanagan dismounted for the final time in a distinguished 26-year career, appropriately enough at the Knavesmire, a course on which he had recorded no fewer than 95 winners, in late August he would have been entitled to suffer some withdrawal symptoms in the ensuing months.
But suggest to the Classic-winning rider who enjoyed five years as Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s first jockey and in a 26-year career partnered such Group 1 victors as Wootton Bassett, Mukhadram, Taghr...

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