Cheltenham Festival-winning rider Mikey Fogarty announces retirement

Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey Mikey Fogarty has decided to retire from riding after 10 years in the saddle.

Fogarty, 27, rode more than 130 winners, including the Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle on Don Poli for Willie Mullins in March, 2014.

His other big-race successes included the Goffs Land Rover Bumper on Divine Rhapsody at the Punchestown Festival in 2014 and the Grade Two Knight Frank Juvenile Hurdle on Fiscal Focus at Leopardstown later that year.

"I took a break the summer before last as well. It's something I've thought about for quite a while," he said.

"I had a couple of winners at Cheltenham and obviously the one at the Festival is the main one. I also rode one there as an amateur for Peter Bowen.

"I had other good days, winning at Galway and the amateur Derby at the Curragh.

"I've moved back home in Wexford with my brother working in the family business at Gaynestown Stud."