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By Mark Boylan
Four-time Cheltenham Festival winner rider Andrew Lynch has ended his memorable cycling career after admitting defeat in his attempts to return to the saddle following a shoulder injury in February 2019.
The 36-year-old, who participated in 20 Grade 1 winners from 2007 to 2015 and accompanied the two-mile star Sizing Europe to victory 15 times, had been optimistic about his return during his recovery from shoulder nerves. damage he suffered in a crash at last year’s Dublin Racing Festival.
However, Lynch’s plans were halted for medical reasons and he will instead focus his attention on his budding breeze and his bankrupt business.
Lynch told the Racing Post: “It is official now that I will not be allowed to ride again. I had been doing everything I could to get back, but the stuntmen are not happy with the injury. I have trouble lifting.” my arm over my shoulder.
“To be fair to the doctors, they gave me every opportunity to see if I could come back. There are a lot of people worse off than me and I’ve had a really good race. Fortunately I have the horses at home so I put my time and efforts into.”
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Lynch rode his first winner under the rules aboard the Al O’Connell-trained Tristernagh at Downpatrick in May 2002 and was consistently one of the busiest riders in Ireland, with a remarkable 694 runs during the 2015-16 Irish jumping season. – 257 above the next most requested driver during the campaign.
That season he posted his best national record of 62 winners, while recording a total of 513 successes under the rules in Ireland and Great Britain during his career.
“I was lucky to find some really good attractions for brilliant people early on,” he said. “From the Dreapers, who gave me my first point-to-point winner, to Al O’Connell, Tommy O’Neill, who I started racing with, Martin Murray, Michael O’Brien, Paul Gilligan, Henry from Bromhead, Peter Casey, the list is endless. I was blessed with the opportunities that I had. “
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Lynch’s career had many quality artists to accompany the impressive number of walks he took each year.
Their partnership with Sizing Europe resulted in a Queen Mother Champion Hunt, Arkle Trophy, Tingle Creek Hunt, two Boylesports Champion Hunt at Punchestown and a pair of top-level Leopardstown wins.
The rider’s other two successes at the Cheltenham Festival came in the 2010 Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle aboard the Paul Gilligan-trained Berties Dream and in the 2011 Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase in Sizing Australia, owned by the Potts family, for whom Lynch was its original retained pilot. before Johnny Burke succeeded him in August 2014.
Lynch, a native of County Meath, will also be remembered for accompanying the very popular Flemenstar in each of his ten wins by the rules, including four at the highest level. He achieved the 2008 Grand National for Wales and two Grade 1s aboard the Notre Pere, highlighted by a 2009 Punchestown Gold Cup win.
There were more Grade 1 Powers Gold Cup wins at Jadanli, Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Voler La Vedette, John Durkan Memorial Chase at Rubi Light, Future Champions Novice Hurdle at Cash And Go and a high-level double in youth hurdles on board. from Dermot Hisaabaat trained in welding in 2012.
“It’s very difficult to single out one day as the highlight because there were so many,” Lynch said. “When Flemenstar was on the song, he was a jumping horse and Sizing Europe gave me some amazing days in Cheltenham – the Queen Mother and Arkle were amazing.”
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Andrew Lynch celebrates with Ann Potts after winning aboard Sizing Europe at the 2014 Punchestown festival
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