Adam Kirby
| Adam Kirby | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Jockey |
| Major racing wins | |
| Major races Diamond Jubilee Stakes (2013) Haydock Sprint Cup (2017) July Cup (2013, 2017) King's Stand Stakes (2016) Prince of Wales's Stakes (2016) |
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| Significant horses | |
| Field of Dream, Harry Angel, Lethal Force, My Dream Boat, Profitable | |
Adam Kirby (born 1988/89) is a Group 1-winning British jockey.
He was brought up in Kirtling near Newmarket, on the Cambridgeshire/Suffolk border, where he still lives, and started riding out for James Fanshawe aged 12. He won the first race he rode in.[1]
In his early career, he became first jockey to Walter Swinburn until Swinburn quit training.[1] For Swinburn, he won the prestigious handicap, the John Smith's Cup, at York in 2006.[2]
Over the next few years, he steadily picked up more winners. He rode over a hundred winners in both 2011 and 2012, and became the 2012/13 all-weather champion.[1]
In 2013, he teamed up with Lethal Force, the horse which took his career to a higher level.[1] Trained by Clive Cox, the grey gave Kirby his first Group 1 win in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.[3] The horse then become one of the sprint stars of the year with an all the way, course record-breaking victory in the July Cup at Newmarket Racecourse, giving Kirby his biggest win to date.[4] The same day he won the Bunbury Cup on Field of Dream.[4]
It would be a few years before he won another Group 1, but in 2014, he won three valuable handicaps - the Lincoln on Ocean Tempest, the Epsom Dash on Caspian Prince, and the Royal Hunt Cup on Field of Dream.[5]
In 2016, still battling to establish himself among the top jockeys in Britain, he narrowly won another Group 1 sprint - the King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot on Profitable, trained by Clive Cox. He had left his pregnant girlfriend, Megan, in order to do so, and she gave birth 45 minutes before the first race.[6] The next day, he won the Prince of Wales's Stakes on My Dream Boat. [7]
In 2017, another Cox horse, Harry Angel gave him two more Group 1s, the July Cup again,[8] and the Haydock Sprint Cup.[9]
He is known for being one of the tallest jockeys in the weighing room.[6]
Major wins
- Diamond Jubilee Stakes - Lethal Force (2013)
- Haydock Sprint Cup - Harry Angel (2017)
- July Cup - (2) - Lethal Force (2013), Harry Angel (2017)
- King's Stand Stakes - Profitable (2016)
- Prince of Wales's Stakes - My Dream Boat (2016)
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