Young jockey is in flying form as she aims to break her duck at the showpiece event of the Flat racing season
“Flying start” does not really do justice to Saffie Osborne’s run of form in the six weeks since the 2026 Flat jockeys’ championship got under way on the first weekend in May. Before racing on Friday, the 24-year-old was fifth in the title race with 22 winners from 132 rides – more wins than the former champions Ryan Moore and William Buick combined. Any punter backing her blind since Guineas weekend at Newmarket is sitting on a 45-point profit.
“I’ve been loving it,” Osborne said at Newbury this week. “I kicked off the season with three winners on Guineas weekend, and had lots of winners through May at the big festivals, and at nice tracks, a nice quality of horses and stakes winners too.”
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